Tajura (Tajoura), North West/ Mediterranean Coast

Tajura (Tajoura) Detention Centre

Status

In use

2026

Type: Immigration detention centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Not Available

Management: General Administration for Combating Irregular Migration (Governmental)

Detains: Adult women, Adult men, Accompanied minors, Unaccompanied minors

Capacity Reported population Conditions complaints?
500
1200

31 December 2025

YES

2026

Libya

17

Dedicated Detention Centres

200,335

Refugees

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FACILITY NAMES
Tajura (Tajoura) Detention Centre
Location

Country: Libya

City & Region: Tajura (Tajoura), North West/ Mediterranean Coast, Africa

Latitude, Longitude: 32.893565, 13.328017

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2026
In use
2025
In use
2024
In use
2023
In use
2020
In use
2019
Closed/ceased migrant detention
2019
In use
2018
In use
2017
In use
2017
In use
2016
Facility type
Category
Type
Year
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2026
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2016
National typology
Official Typology
Year
Unofficial detention centre
2024
Management
Management
Type
Year
General Administration for Combating Irregular Migration
Governmental
2025
Directorate for Combatting Illegal Migration (DCIM)
Governmental
2018
Passport Investigations Department
Governmental
2016

DETAINEES

Demographics

Adult women

2018

Adult men

2018

Accompanied minors

2018

Unaccompanied minors

2018

SIZE & POPULATION

Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 500

2017
Reported Single-Day Migration Detainee Population at Facility (day)
Number
Date
1200
31 December 2025
1055
11 July 2018
90
8 June 2017

LENGTH OF DETENTION

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Overall Inspection Score

Score Deficient (“Deficient” or “At Risk”)

2026
Inadequate conditions
Inadequate Conditions
Obvs. Date
2026
2025
2024
2018
2017
2016

CARCERAL INDICATORS

STAFF

Mistreatment Reports

Mistreatment Complaints Yes

Details/Description “[M]igrants, asylum seekers and refugees including children, [are] arbitrarily held in inhumane conditions rife with human rights violations, including torture and ill-treatment, forced labour, and extortion.”

Report date (Month) February

Report date (Year) 2026

2026

SEGREGATION

Gender Segregation

Gender Segregation Yes

2018
Age Segregation

Age Segregation No

2018

CELLS

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

HEALTH

MONITORING & ACCESS

Monitors & Civil Society Access
Access?
Type of Institution
Year
Yes
International Organization for Migration
2018
Yes
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
2018

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

NEWS & TESTIMONY

2026

“Since its formal establishment in 2014, DCIM has operated as a department under the MOI, with its own budget and administration structure. However, on 13 May 2025, the Prime Minister issued Decision 227/2025, dissolving the DCIM and establishing the General Administration for Combating Irregular Migration under the MOI, transferring all DCIM assets and personnel to the new body. This change in name did not address the underlying structural problems, and no tangible reforms have been implemented as at the time of writing this report. Tajoura and other detention centres in eastern Libya, for example, continued to operate with the same staff previously implicated in serious human rights violations and abuses.”