Ganfuda (Benghazi) Detention Centre

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Expand all

Status

Center status Show sources

Status	Observation date
In use	2018
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), “UNHCR Libya Alternatives to Detention in Libya, April 2018,” 13 April 2018, https://reliefweb.int/report/libya/unhcr-libya-alternatives-detention-libya-april-2018-enar
In use	2015
Altai Consulting, Migration Trends Across the Mediterranean: Connecting the Dots, study for the International Organization of Migration in 2015, available at: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Migration/StudyMigrants/IOs/IOMTrendsAccrossMediterranean.pdf
In use	2009
Human Rights Watch. 2009. Pushed Back, Pushed Around: Italy's Forced Return of Boat Migrants and Asylum Seekers, Libya's Mistreatment of Migrants and Asylum Seekers. Human Rights Watch. United States of America. September 2009. http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/09/21/pushed-back-pushed-around-0 (accessed 5 October 2009).
Fortress Europe. 2007. Escape From Tripoli: Report on the Conditions of Migrants in Transit in Libya. Fortress Europe. Rome. 25 October 2007.

Typology

GDP facility typology Show sources

Category Filter	Type	Observation date
Administrative	Immigration detention centre	2009
Human Rights Watch. 2009. Pushed Back, Pushed Around: Italy's Forced Return of Boat Migrants and Asylum Seekers, Libya's Mistreatment of Migrants and Asylum Seekers. Human Rights Watch. United States of America. September 2009. http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/09/21/pushed-back-pushed-around-0 (accessed 5 October 2009).

Operating Period

City and region

Benghazi

Management and Services

Management Show sources

Name	Type	Observation date
Directorate for Combatting Illegal Migration (DCIM)	Governmental	2018
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), “UNHCR Libya Alternatives to Detention in Libya, April 2018,” 13 April 2018, https://reliefweb.int/report/libya/unhcr-libya-alternatives-detention-libya-april-2018-enar

Security

Security Regime Show sources

Security Level	Observation date
Secure	2009
Human Rights Watch. 2009. Pushed Back, Pushed Around: Italy's Forced Return of Boat Migrants and Asylum Seekers, Libya's Mistreatment of Migrants and Asylum Seekers. Human Rights Watch. United States of America. September 2009. http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/09/21/pushed-back-pushed-around-0 (accessed 5 October 2009).

Detention timeframe

Demographics

Categories of detainees

Name	Observation date
Undocumented migrants (administrative)	2009

Segregation

Size and population

Estimated capacity (administrative immigration detention facility) Show sources

Type	Capacity	Observation date
Standard capacity	450	2009
Human Rights Watch. 2009. Pushed Back, Pushed Around: Italy's Forced Return of Boat Migrants and Asylum Seekers, Libya's Mistreatment of Migrants and Asylum Seekers. Human Rights Watch. United States of America. September 2009. http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2009/09/21/pushed-back-pushed-around-0 (accessed 5 October 2009).

Conditions

Personnel

Access

Access by international organizations, civil society, national institutions Show sources

Yes or No	Type of institution	Observation date
Yes	UN High Commissioner for Refugees	2018
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), “UNHCR Libya Alternatives to Detention in Libya, April 2018,” 13 April 2018, https://reliefweb.int/report/libya/unhcr-libya-alternatives-detention-libya-april-2018-enar

Deaths

Custodial authority

Custodial authority Show sources

Agency	Ministry	Ministry Typology	Observation date
Militia	Ministry of Interior	Non-State Actor - Militia/Armed Group	2015
MHub, Detained Youth: The Fate of Young Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Libya Today, MHub Research Paper 1, July 2015, available at: http://www.mixedmigrationhub.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/MHUB_2015_Detained-Youth.pdf
Departments of Anti-Infiltration and Illegal Immigration		Interior or Home Affairs	2009
Frontex. 2007. FRONTEX-Led EU Illegal Immigration Technical Mission to Libya 28 May – 5 June 2007. Frontex.

Ownership

Budgetary information

Area of authority