Moises Saman The infrared camera of a Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat shows a boat of armed Libyan smugglers(bottom right) escorting a rubber boat full of African migrants (center left) in the Mediterranean Sea (...)
off the coast of Zawiyah, Libya. Zawiyah, Libya. 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman African migrants held at the Sikka Road detention center in Tripoli, wash up during a brief moment that they were allowed to be outdoors in the front yard of the detention center. The main holding (...)
facility at the Sikka Road detention facility is operated by the Libyan Ministry of Interior in Tripoli. About 1400 migrants, mostly from Sub-Saharan Africa, are detained in deplorable conditions as they await repatriation to their countries of origin. Tripoli, Libya. 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman 19-year-old Sangare Sekou, a migrant from the Ivory Coast, recovers from a bullet wound inside a quarantine cell at the Sikka Road detention center for illegal migrants in Tripoli, Libya. Sekou was (...)
shot in the stomach by Libyan gunmen during a crackdown against illegal migrants living in safe houses around Tripoli. Tripoli, Libya. 2017.
Sekou was shot in the stomach by Libyan gunmen during a crackdown against illegal migrants living in safe houses around Tripoli. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman The main holding facility at the Sikka Road detention facility operated by the Libyan Ministry of Interior in Tripoli. About 1400 migrants, mostly from Sub-Saharan Africa, are detained in deplorabl (...)
e conditions and without free access to bathroom and showers, as they await repatriation to their countries of origin. Tripoli, Libya. 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman African migrants about to be repatriated to their countries of origin gather with their belongings outside the main holding facility at the Sikka Road detention facility operated by the Libyan Mini (...)
stry of Interior in Tripoli. About 1400 migrants, mostly from Sub-Saharan Africa, are detained in deplorable conditions and without free access to bathroom and showers, as they await repatriation to their countries of origin. Tripoli, Libya. 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Roselyn Tore, 45, pleads with a guard for additional food ration at the Airport Road detention center for illegal migrants on the outskirts of Tripoli. Roselyn, a sickly woman, has been refused rep (...)
atriation several times for fears that she might be contagious to the other migrants traveling with her. Tripoli, Libya. 2017 © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman MEDITERRANEAN SEA. Off the Coast of Zawiyah, Libya. April 6, 2017.
A fatally wounded Libyan smuggler is taken into custody aboard a Libyan Coast Guard boat after a deadly confrontation and shooto (...)
ut between a group of armed Libyan smugglers and a patrol of the Libyan Coast Guard based in Zawiyah, Libya. The armed Libyan smugglers were escorting a rubber boat full of migrants to international waters off the Libyan coast when a Libyan Coast Guard patrol encountered them in the sea. The smugglers refused to surrender, and instead opened fire on the Libyan Coast Guard boat, a shootout ensued in which four smugglers were killed, and a fifth one went missing after falling overboard. One Libyan Coast Guard was wounded. The smuggler in this photo died from his wounds hours after this photo was taken. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos