Leila, one of the sequestrated migrants in Libya, told the story of her abduction by smugglers and the conditions she was subjected to, along with her husband Mohamed, who finally set himself on fire.
A report, broadcast by British radio BBC, revealed how Leila and her husband left Somalia after they were shot by Al-Shabaab armed forces before they were sent to Libya where they been sequestered in a depot. Leila explained that during the day, the smugglers were walking around the depot and hitting the women. The report said that women could only wait for the night when the smugglers came back to rape them.
Later, the two spouses managed to escape while the smugglers were busy in a confrontation. The two concerned fled aboard a ship putting an end to their ordeal. Leila and Mohamed were accompanied by about 110 other people but they were all delivered and explained that for them, dying on this trip was better than returning to Libya.
However, the ship ran out of fuel and the Libyan coastguard eventually overtook it and forced all of its passengers to return to Libya. Once back, Leila and her companions were transported by military buses to what she called prisons known as detention centers. Leila was imprisoned in a small room with 50 other private women, all of them, the most basic needs of life.
The young woman assured that several of her companions died of tuberculosis while others, including her, were victims of torture. Leila said her husband eventually died after self-immolation by becoming a widow at just 21 years of age. Leila was transferred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to a refugee camp in Niger for about three months. Since then, no one has heard from him.
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