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Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>A collection of makeshift warehouses sits along the highway in the Ghout al-Shaal neighborhood of Tripoli, Libya, as unremarkable as a scrap yard. Formerly a storage depot for drywall, rebar, and lumber, the site was reopened in January 2021, its walls newly heightened and topped with barbed wire.<\/p>\n

On the east side of the compound, a dozen men, dressed in black and blue camouflage uniforms, some armed with Kalashnikov rifles, stand around a blue shipping container that passes for an office.<\/p>\n

At the front gate of the facility, a sign reads, \u201cDirectorate for Combatting Illegal Migration. \u201d In fact, the facility is a secretive migrant prison known as Al Mabani, which means, simply, \u201cThe Buildings.<\/p>\n

\u201d At 3 a. m. on February 5th, 2021, Aliou Cand\u00e9, a twenty-eight-year-old migrant from Guinea Bissau, was brought to the prison.<\/p>\n

Cand\u00e9 was short and sturdy, very shy, and walked lightly in unlaced sneakers, as if he might sprint away if he could. Seventeen months before, he had left home because his farm was failing, and set out to join his brothers in Europe.<\/p>\n

But, as he crossed the Mediterranean Sea on a crowded raft, he had been intercepted by the Libyan Coast Guard, and brought to the prison. He and a hundred other migrants from his raft were pushed into Cell No. 4, which held some three hundred migrants.<\/p>\n

Fluorescent lights hanging from the ceiling were never turned off. A small grille in the main door, about a foot wide, was the only source of natural light.<\/p>\n

Escaped birds from a nearby coop nested in the ceiling rafters, their droppings and feathers falling down from above. There was virtually no space to sit down, and the migrants already occupying the floor slid over to avoid being trampled.<\/p>\n

Cand\u00e9 crowded into a far corner, beginning to panic. \u201cWhat should we do?\u201d he asked a cellmate. In the past six or so years, The European Union, weary of the financial and political costs of streams of migrants coming from sub-Saharan Africa, has created a shadowy system that stops migrants before they reach Europe\u2019s shores.<\/p>\n

It has funded, trained, and equipped the Libyan Coast Guard, a quasi-military organization, which now patrols the Mediterranean, sabotaging humanitarian rescue operations and capturing migrants bound for Europe.<\/p>\n

The migrants are then funneled into a system of gulags in Libya, where they are held indefinitely, without due process. The jails are typically run by one of Libya\u2019s many powerful, competing militias. In the first seven months of this year, some six thousand migrants were sent to these facilities, the majority to Al Mabani.<\/p>\n

International aid agencies have documented an array of abuses at the facilities: the use of electric shocks on detainees, children raped by guards, migrant families extorted for ransom, men and women sold into forced labor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EU created something they carefully considered and planned for many years.<\/p>\n

Create a hellhole in Libya with the idea of deterring people from heading to Europe,\u201d said Salah Marghani, a human rights lawyer who served as Libya\u2019s Minister of Justice from 2012 to 2014.<\/p>\n

Cand\u00e9 grew up on a farm near the remote village of Sintchan Demba Gaira, Guinea Bissau, a three-hour drive from the country\u2019s capital. The village has no cell reception, paved roads, plumbing, or electricity.<\/p>\n

Cand\u00e9 lived in a single-level clay house\u2014half painted yellow and the other half blue\u2014with his wife, Hava, and their two sons, eight and five. Next to his house is a tree where his family and friends gather to have tea and talk, sitting on water cans and plastic chairs.<\/p>\n

Cand\u00e9 had always been restless in Sintchan Demba Gaira; he listened to foreign musicians like Wyclef Jean, Bob Marley, and Carlos Djedje, and closely followed European soccer clubs.<\/p>\n

He spoke several languages, including Bambara, English, Kreole, French, and Pulaar, and was in the midst of teaching himself Portuguese, because he hoped one day to live in Portugal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAliou was a very lovely boy\u2014never in any trouble,\u201d Jacaria, one of his brothers, told me.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a hard worker. People respected him. \u201d Cand\u00e9\u2019s farm produced cassava, yams, and cashews\u2014a crop that accounts for ninety per cent of the country\u2019s exports.<\/p>\n

But recently, weather patterns had shifted, probably as a result of climate change. \u201cWe don\u2019t feel the cold during the cold season anymore, and the heat comes earlier than it should,\u201d Jacaria said.<\/p>\n

Flooding had worsened, leaving Cand\u00e9\u2019s farm accessible only by canoe for much of the year. Droughts lasted twice as long as when his father tilled the land.<\/p>\n

His four skinny cows produced only enough milk for his children to drink it once a month. Increased temperatures also meant more mosquitos, which spread diseases like meningitis.<\/p>\n

In 2018, when one of Cand\u00e9\u2019s sons caught malaria, the journey to the hospital took a day by donkey cart, and the illness was almost fatal. Cand\u00e9, who was a pious Muslim, often spoke of failing before God to give his family what it needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe felt guilty and envious,\u201d Bobo, another of Cande\u2019s brothers, told me.<\/p>\n

Little help seemed forthcoming. \u201cWe don\u2019t expect anything from the state,\u201d Jacaria said. \u201cThe state has never given us even a single bag of rice. \u201d Jacaria had emigrated to Spain, and Denbas to Italy.<\/p>\n

Both brothers sent home money and photographs of fancy restaurants. \u201cWhoever goes abroad brings fortune at home,\u201d Samba, Cand\u00e9\u2019s father, said. Cand\u00e9\u2019s wife was eight months pregnant, but his family encouraged him to travel to Europe too, promising that they would look after his children.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the people of his generation went abroad and succeeded,\u201d his mother, Aminatta, recounted him saying to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo why not him.<\/p>\n

\u201d On the morning of September 13th, 2019, Cand\u00e9 set out for Europe, carrying two pairs of pants, two T-shirts, a leather diary, a Quran, and six hundred Euros.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how long this will take,\u201d Cand\u00e9 told his wife, that morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I love you, and I\u2019ll be back.<\/p>\n

\u201d Now inside Al Mabani, Cand\u00e9 had no idea where he was being held, and no one in the outside world knew that he had been captured.<\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t being charged with a crime, or allowed to speak to a lawyer, and had been given no indication of whether he would ever be allowed to leave. In his early days at the prison, he kept mostly to himself, submitting to the grim routines of the place.<\/p>\n

There were some fifteen hundred migrants held at the prison, in eight faceless cells segregated by gender. The prison was controlled by a militia calling itself the Public Security Agency, and its armed men patrolled the compound.<\/p>\n

There was only one toilet for every hundred people, and Cande often had to urinate in a water bottle or defecate in the showers. Sleep occurred on thin foam pads on the floor that were infested with lice, scabies, and fleas.<\/p>\n

There weren\u2019t enough mats, so pairs of men took turns sleeping: one during the day, the other at night. Twice a day, Cand\u00e9 and other migrants were marched, single-file, into the jail\u2019s courtyard for meals; they were forbidden from looking up at the sky, or opening their mouths during the walk.<\/p>\n

Like zookeepers, guards put large, shared bowls of food on the ground, and migrants gathered in circles to eat from the floor. Anyone who disobeyed the guards\u2019 orders was beaten with whatever was handy: a shovel, a hosepipe, a cable, a tree branch.<\/p>\n

There were dark accounts shared among the migrants of troublemakers being tortured. Detainees speculated that the guards were dumping those who died inside Al Mabani in a pile of brick and plaster rubble behind one of the compound\u2019s outer walls.<\/p>\n

Some of the migrants had scrawled graffiti on the walls of the cells, small acts of hope: \u201cA soldier never retreats,\u201d read one; another: \u201cWith our eyes closed, we advance.<\/p>\n

God only knows our victory. \u201d But Cand\u00e9 soon learned that there was only one way out of the prison. Guards offered migrants their freedom for a fee of twenty-five hundred Libyan dinars\u2014about five hundred dollars.<\/p>\n

During meals, the guards walked around with a cell phone, offering to let migrants call parents who could pay. Cand\u00e9 knew that his family could never afford the ransom, which left him, like most other detainees, stuck.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t have anybody to call, you just sit down,\u201d said Tokam Martin Luther, an older man from Cameroon. Three weeks after Cand\u00e9 arrived, a group of detainees hatched a plan for escape.<\/p>\n

Moussa Korouma, a migrant from Ivory Coast, and several others defecated into a waste bin and left it in the cell\u2019s corner for two days, until the stench became overpowering.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was hell because it was my first time in prison,\u201d said Korouma.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was terrified.<\/p>\n

\u201d When guards opened the cell doors, nineteen migrants burst past them.<\/p>\n

They climbed on top of a low-roofed bathroom, dropped down fifteen feet over the walls, and disappeared into a warren of alleyways near the prison, escaping to freedom.<\/p>\n

For those who remained, the consequences were bloody. That evening, Al Mabani\u2019s guards called in reinforcements, who sprayed bullets into the cells. They then entered and began beating inmates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was one guy in my ward that they beat with a gun on his head, until he fainted and started shaking,\u201d a migrant later told Amnesty International.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t call an ambulance to come get him that night; he was still breathing, but he was not able to talk.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what happened to him. I don\u2019t know what he had done. \u201d Cand\u00e9 kept his head down in the weeks that followed, speaking politely to guards and biding his time.<\/p>\n

He clung to a hopeful rumor that he had heard around the prison: that the guards planned to release the migrants in his cell in honor of Ramadan, nine weeks off.<\/p>\n

If he could survive until then, he thought, he had a chance at surviving. Tokram Martin Luther, who slept on the pad next to Cand\u00e9\u2019s, wrote of the excitement running through the prison in a diary that he kept.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lord is miraculous,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay his grace continue to protect all migrants around the world and especially those from Libya.\u201d<\/p>\n

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