amnesty international: seeking safety, finding fear

Refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Libya and Malta

Many thousand somalis flee their war-torn country every year in search of safety. for those who reach libya, indefinite detention, torture and other abuses await them. many then embark on perilous sea journeys towards europe. those who survive often end up in malta, where they face detention followed by isolation and poverty in cramped accommodation. (download pdf at amnesty.org)