Sabratah Detention Centre

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Status

Center status Show sources

Status	Observation date
In use	2018
International Organisation for Migration (IOM), "Libya—Detention Centre Profile Generator (August 2018)," Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), August 2018. http://www.globaldtm.info/libya-detention-centre-profile-august-2018/
Global Detention Project (GDP). 2018. "Country Report: Immigration Detention in Libya: 'a human rights crisis'". August 2018. https://www.globaldetentionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/GDP-Immigration-Detention-Libya.pdf
Closed (or ceased migrant detention operations)	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
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

Contact Information

City and region

Sabratah

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Management and Services

Management Show sources

Name	Type	Observation date
Directorate for Combatting Illegal Migration	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

Demographics Show sources

Name	Observation date
Adult men	2018
International Organisation for Migration (IOM), "Libya—Detention Centre Profile Generator (July 2018)," Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), July 2018

Categories of detainees

Name	Observation date
Undocumented migrants (administrative)	2009

Segregation

Size and population

Reported population at a specific time Show sources

Number	Observation date
1	2018
International Organisation for Migration (IOM), "Libya—Detention Centre Profile Generator (July 2018)," Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), July 2018

Conditions

Personnel

Access

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

Yes or No	Type of institution	Observation date
Yes	International Organization for Migration	2018
International Organisation for Migration (IOM), "Libya—Detention Centre Profile Generator (August 2018)," Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), August 2018. http://www.globaldtm.info/libya-detention-centre-profile-august-2018/

Deaths

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Custodial authority

Custodial authority Show sources

Agency	Ministry	Ministry Typology	Observation date
Departments of Anti-Infiltration and Illegal Immigration	Ministry of Interior	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

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