On 18 January, Libyan National Army (LNA) security forces said they had freed more than 200 migrants from a secret underground prison in Kufra, in southeastern Libya, run by traffickers where they had suffered severe and inhumane detention conditions and had been held for prolonged periods in hidden underground cells. The Libyan trafficker who allegedly ran the facility has not yet been arrested. The people released were mainly from Somalia and Eritrea and included women and children.
UNHCR called for ‘the immediate release from detention of all those who were released from trafficking camps in Ajdabiya and Kufra.’