Tariq Al Matar, Tripoli

Hamza (Tariq Al Matar) Detention Center

Libya

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, Asylum seekers (administrative), Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Capacity Reported population Conditions complaints?
1600
1700

28 August 2018

YES

2026

Libya

17

Dedicated Detention Centres

200,335

Refugees

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FACILITY NAMES
Hamza (Tariq Al Matar) Detention Center
Location

Country: Libya

City & Region: Tariq Al Matar, Tripoli, Africa

Latitude, Longitude: 32.757155, 13.142723

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2026
In use
2025
In use
2024
Last documented use
2018
In use
2017
Facility type
Category
Type
Year
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2026
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2018
Management
Management
Type
Year
General Administration for Combating Irregular Migration
Governmental
2025
Directorate for Combatting Illegal Migration (DCIM)
Governmental
2018
Outsourced services and non-state actors
Provider
Service
Year
IOM and UNHCR
Social services
2017
Mixed Migration Working Group (UNHCR, IOM, MSF, DRC, IMC and other partner NGOs)
Health care
2017

DETAINEES

Demographics

Adult women

2025

Adult men

2025

Accompanied minors

2025

Unaccompanied minors

2025

Unaccompanied minors

2024

Adult men

2024

Unaccompanied minors

2018

Accompanied minors

2018

Adult men

2018

Adult women

2018

Unaccompanied minors

2017

Adult women

2017

Adult men

2017
Categories of detainees

Asylum seekers (administrative)

2025

Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2025
At-Risk Populations

Asylum seekers

2025

Accompanied children

2025

Unaccompanied children

2025

Refugees

2025

SIZE & POPULATION

Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 1600

2017
Reported Single-Day Migration Detainee Population at Facility (day)
Number
Date
1700
28 August 2018

LENGTH OF DETENTION

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Overall Inspection Score

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

2026
Inadequate conditions
Inadequate Conditions
Obvs. Date
2026
2025
2024
2023
2018
2017
2017
2017

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

Mistreatment Complaints Yes

2023

SEGREGATION

Gender Segregation

Gender Segregation Yes

2018
Age Segregation

Age Segregation Yes

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

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