Oxfam report: Refugees face rape, torture, and slavery (Photo)

The report, carried out in partnership with Italian charitable organisations, “Mytories for Human Rights” (MEDU) and “Broderline Sicily”, analyzed 285 evidence including 158 interviews with 31 women and 127 men who arrived in Sicily who had made the dangerous passage from Libya.

Evidence revealed severe misuse of immigrants in Libya.

Three-quarters of refugees and migrants interviewed also said they had witnessed the murder or torture of a traveling companion, Oxfam says.

Chidi, 18, from Gambia, said he had been kidnapped by a gang and remained in prison in Sabratha for three months.

Our kidnappers... He committed acts of torture and violence regularly against all held in a land where they controlled him. I was subjected to repeated acts of torture... and was constantly beaten on my head”, says Chidi.

A teenager from Senegal said that he was kept in a cell filled with dead bodies before he could escape.

Lamine, 18, said: “The country where it was under the control of the kidnappers was filled with lifeless bodies, I saw soldiers breaking a boy's nose and beating it so seriously that he lost his eyes. They broke my finger and cut off my left leg with a knife”, reported the Independent”, broadcast Periscopi.

In the report, Oxfam and her partners found that in 84 percent of the evidence, people said they had suffered inhuman or degrading treatment, extreme violence or torture, 80 per cent said they had repeatedly denied food and water, and 70 per cent of them said they had been connected all the time under the orders of the kidnapping gangs./Periscopi/