West African migrants are being bought and sold openly in modern-day slave markets in Libya.

The north African nation is a major exit point for refugees from Africa trying to take boats to Europe. But since the overthrow of autocratic leader Muammar Gaddafi, the vast, sparsely populated country has slid into violent chaos and migrants with little cash and usually no papers are particularly vulnerable.

People are being smuggled and they are being sold for about 400£ to locals.

Some are taken to a makeshift prison of a kind that has been well documented in Libya. Those held inside are forced to work without pay, or on meagre rations, and their captors regularly call family at home demanding a ransom. Then, sold again, they have to go to bigger jails.

Men who lingered there too long without the ransom being paid were taken away and killed. Some were being starved to death or the locals would just let them live with untreated diseases. 

THIS HAS TO STOP! PLEASE SIGN THIS AND SPREAD IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

We have to protest against this, we have to make sure Libya or other countrys do something about it!

It’s 2017, and human-trade and slavery still exists!