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When Hope Is Lost: Detained in Libya

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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 (...)
Moises Saman African migrants inside a detention cell at a Annaser detention facility in Zawiyah. Zawiyah, Libya. 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman The infrared camera of a Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat captures the moment guards from the Libyan Coast Guard board a smugglers boat after a deadly shootout in the sea in which five smugglers were (...)
Moises Saman A detained African migrant shows a cell phone photo of a group of friends feared dead in a rubber boat sinking accident in the Mediterranean Sea. Zawiyah, Libya. 2017 © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Dozens of African women detained aboard rubber boats trying to cross the Mediterranean sit inside a makeshift detention center for women in Surman, Libya. Surman, 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 (...)
Moises Saman A mural at the entrance of the Red Crescent offices in Tripoli, Libya. April 1, 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman LIBYA. Zawiyah. April 5, 2017.

Abdulrahman Al-Bija, a former revolutionary fighter and now a Libyan Coast Guard commander in Zawiyah, rides his horse in a farm on the outskirts of Zawiyah. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Female African migrants being held at the Sikka Road detention center in Tripoli, gather in the courtyard of the holding facility before receiving their daily food rations. Tripoli, Libya. 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman A photograph of a dead African migrants that washed up on the Libyan Coast inside an investigation file of the Libyan Red Crescent in Tripoli, Libya. 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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Moises Saman Detained African migrants outside of their holding cells during a meal at the Annaser detention center. Zawiyah, Libya. 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Mohamed Moseray, a migrant from Freetown, Liberia, recounting how he survived the deadly sinking of a rubber boat. He is now held at a detention center for migrants in Zawiyah. Zawiyah, 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 (...)
Moises Saman LIBYA. Tripoli. April 3, 2017. African day laborers gather at an intersection in the Gargarish district of Tripoli, an area known to be the location of several human trafficking safe houses, known (...)