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Thursday, January 08, 2009

[Libya] Fortress Europe: The detention centres in the Libyan desert

SEBHA – “With us, in the truck, there was a four years old child, with his mother. We were crammed like animals inside the lorry, with no air and no space to move. I wondered how a child could be put in these conditions. Inside the container it was very hot. The travel took 21 hours, from 4 pm to 1 pm the following day. They didn’t give us anything to eat.