Refugees in Libya

01/10/2026

Five years ago today, we were born.

Refugees in Libya: created by refugees, for refugees, in a country where seeking asylum is treated as a crime.

We went all the way in search of safety, only to be trapped in Libya by EU policies. So we organised. We protested. We documented. We kept each other alive. And we carried the fight from the streets of Tripoli to the courtrooms of Europe.

We are not tools for anyone’s politics. We are human beings.

Five years in, we are just getting started. And this time, we don’t want to start alone.

STAND UP WITH US in Berlin, 3 October 2026
📣 From the Streets of Tripoli to the ICC
📍 SPORE Initiative, Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin-Neukölln
Doors open at 15:30

26/09/2026

Reports uncovered a coordinated network of 70 pages created within days of one another in May 2026, spreading anti-refugee incitement, misleading content and paid advertisements across Libya. The investigation found that the pages amassed more than two million followers, frequently published identical material within minutes, and promoted content calling for expulsions, attacks on UNHCR and mobilisation against refugees.

Beam Reports uncovered a coordinated network of 70 pages created within days of one another in May 2026, spreading anti-refugee incitement, misleading content and paid advertisements across Libya. The investigation found that the pages amassed more than two million followers, frequently pub...

24/09/2026

This is the scene reaching us from the Tobrouk enslavement and torture camp following last night’s mass raids.

Slavery is alive in Libya thanks to Europe sustaining it with every means.

24/09/2026

Calling for interventions in 🇱🇾 before 1st of October.

24/09/2026

Last evening and throughout the night, Tobrouk witnessed scenes that should outrage us all.

Police and mobs of citizens acted together to hunt down “migrants,” forcing them onto lorries bound for the desert. People were chased through the streets, from public spaces, and from their homes.

Behold the scene we have been warning about.

This is not simply “migration management.” These are human beings being hunted, rounded up, and removed by force.

And Tobrouk may not be the end of it. Similar scenarios are being prepared in Tripoli, led by the so-called Group Against Resettlement.

How far must this go before the world pays attention?

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23/09/2026

“I swear to God, the solution is actually easy, and it depends on us as the Libyan people. ⏬ The solution is: ⏬

1. Evict them from housing in every city, village, or tribal area and throw them all out into the streets at once.
2. Cut off all dealings with them: no work, no selling, no buying from them. Force all state institutions, such as hospitals and others, not to provide them with any services without payment. Shops, pharmacies, and others should sell goods to them at ten times the normal price—for example, something that costs 1 dinar should be sold to them for 10 dinars.
3. Expel the ‘devilish’ organisations that support them from all Libyan territory and eliminate them completely. Restrict the state-run detention centres so that the services provided to them are very basic: some bread and water, and that is more than enough.

🔵 If we implement these three points 👆, migration to Libya will end completely.

Because when the ‘slave’ comes to Libya and finds work, free housing, free electricity, free water, cheap goods, and good treatment, he will call his cousins back home and encourage them, saying: ‘Come to Libya—there is money, comfort, and organisations throwing dollars around.’ At that point, what would he still need his own country for? He will deny it and forget it.

Then they will come with their women and multiply like harmful bacteria, and they will become peoples living among you. Then they will demand citizenship and legal rights, buy weapons and am******on, and by then, I swear, regret will be useless.”

23/09/2026

The clock is ticking, and almost a million protection seekers in Libya are in perpetual d@nger. The thr€ats to ann!hilate them – “m!grants,” “refuge3s,” or “infiltrat0rs,” as they call those vulnerable women, children, and men – grow by the day. Our social media platforms and emails are flooded with thr€ats of m@ss k1llings, starting with the children before the mothers.

How lightly should we take these thr€ats when many are being d1sappeared, many have been buried in mas$ gr@ves, many thousands are held in EU-funded c0ncentration-like camps under the pretext of “m!gration management,” and many are continually r@ped, ext0rted for ransom, ensl@ved, and f0rced into labour?

All this while safe pathways out of Libya are being blocked. Those wishing to return cannot because organisations handling the so-called voluntary returns have been blocked by vi0lent m1litias. Those attempting to esc@pe towards Europe are vi0lently captur€d at gunp0int by EU-funded m!litias or the so-called coastguards. UNHCR, which used to deliver basic human1tarian assistance and facilitate safe routes to the so-called safe third countries, has also been blocked.

At the same time, the infl@mmatory rhetoric directed at Black people in Libya is being spread by groups financed by powerful actors to inc1te nationwide xen0phobic vi0lence so that they can justify why “m!gration management” is necessary.

But this must not be confused with Libyan society as a whole. While people on the move need immediate protection from these m0bs, Libyan civil society actors and individual citizens who are working day and night to confront these cr1mes and stand in solidarity with affected communities also need support and protection. Organisations such as the Benghazi Center for Migration and Asylum Consulting and Research S.L., Libya Crimes Watch, Lawyers for Justice in Libya, and Belaady Observatory for Human Rights continue to resist this violence from within Libya.

European and Libyan actors responsible for sustaining this system must be held accountable.

We call on you all to raise awareness before it is too late.

The so-called 1st of October deadline is no joke.

23/09/2026

REFUGEE TRIBUNAL: Refugees in Libya vs. Italian Ministers and EU Officials

18 Oct 2025

Did you miss the Refugee Tribunal of last year?

You can still read here:
https://www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/refugee-tribunal-refugees-in-libya-vs-italian-ministers-and-eu-officials

19/09/2026

Yes, that’s how they exhibit their acts of terror against Black people in Libya. They film their crimes, upload them on social platforms, and add dramatic war sounds to them.

Black people’s lives in Libya now hang by a thread, as 1 October is allegedly the final deadline for all foreigners to leave Libya, lest they face the ultimate consequences, if not death.

19/09/2026

أعزائي الليبيين، وخاصة أولئك الذين يزعمون أنهم ناشطون ضد ما يسمى بـ«التوطين»، استمعوا إلى هذه الرسالة من مواطن ليبي مثلكم.

لا يمكنكم إنكار أن المهاجرين واللاجئين في مختلف أنحاء البلاد يتعرضون للتعذيب، والاستغلال لتحقيق مكاسب مالية وجنسية، والاستعباد، والحرمان من حقوقهم الأساسية.