Month: November 2017

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9 November 2017

M, 19 years old, Nigeria

My body is massacred because when I was six years old I was victim of an attack. These men wanted to exterminate my family, which they managed to do. They poured petrol on me, locked me in a car, and burnt me. I do not know how I managed to survive. The right part of… Read more »

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9 November 2017

L., 23 years old, Nigeria

I have been staying in Libya for 6 months most of the time in jail. I have experienced terrible things that I do not know if I can ever tell. But a terrible thing happened one day, the scars of which I still bear today. One day the jailers poured petrol on my buttocks and… Read more »

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9 November 2017

P., 26 years old, Nigeria

I left Nigeria in March this year. The trip was fast and I reached Libya in a short time. They took me to Sabha where I was kidnapped. They kept me segregated in a prison in Sabha for 2 months. I witnessed and suffered too much violence. The jailers came to pick me up every… Read more »

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9 November 2017

B., 19 years old, Mali

I have been a slave all my life. When I was 16, my family forced me to leave school and marry a man I did not love. I was his slave. When my husband realized that I could not get pregnant, he abused me badly. He humiliated me, beat me and raped me, putting the… Read more »

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9 November 2017

H, 20 years old, Gambia

Three years ago I left the Gambia and headed to Libya where I stayed for three years. I spent two years in jail. Very soon, I have been kidnapped by the Asma Boys and taken to a prison ruled by them. These two years have been very difficult. In jail they beat me and tortured… Read more »