A Migrant Prison Officially Closes. But How Much Has Changed?
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 24, 2022
In mid-January, without explanation, the Libyan government officially shut down Al Mabani, the country’s most notorious prison for the detention of migrants. The prison, which first opened in January of 2021, had previously held several thousand people under ghastly conditions in a set of makeshift warehouses in Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
Al Mabani, which means “The Buildings” in Arabic, functioned as part of a shadow immigration system created by the European Union to stop migrants, many of them from sub-Saharan Africa, from reaching Europe . . .
