Refugee children are resorting to drinking their own urine while being detained by Libyan smugglers in squalid prisons because they are given no water or food, The Telegraph has been told.
A spokesman for Save the Children said that once migrants reach Libya, they are often held for months in makeshift prisons until their families back home can come up with enough money to pay the traffickers for the next part of the journey – the boat crossing to Italy.
To put more pressure on the families to send money, the migrants are routinely beaten and tortured.
"There are some very harrowing accounts," said Save the Children's Gemma Parkin, speaking in the port of Catania, Sicily, as 220 African migrants disembarked from an Italian military ship after being rescued at sea.
"Children and minors are kept in these makeshift prisons for months. They are resorting to drinking their own urine because they are given no food or water. They are dying of diseases. Up to 100 of them may be kept in a single room."
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A spokesman for Save the Children said that once migrants reach Libya, they are often held for months in makeshift prisons until their families back home can come up with enough money to pay the traffickers for the next part of the journey – the boat crossing to Italy.
To put more pressure on the families to send money, the migrants are routinely beaten and tortured.
"There are some very harrowing accounts," said Save the Children's Gemma Parkin, speaking in the port of Catania, Sicily, as 220 African migrants disembarked from an Italian military ship after being rescued at sea.
"Children and minors are kept in these makeshift prisons for months. They are resorting to drinking their own urine because they are given no food or water. They are dying of diseases. Up to 100 of them may be kept in a single room."
Children as young as nine are making the terrifying journey from countries like Eritrea, trekking across the Sahara to the Libyan coast, all the time at the mercy of trafficking gangs. Full story...
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