End of your journey in Libya

Libya has not ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1967 protocol, and has failed to adopt asylum legislation. Libyan law criminalises unauthorised migration and does not distinguish between migrants, refugees, victims of trafficking or others in need of international protection (all are considered illegal immigrants). "Illegal immigrants" are subject to fines, detention and expulsion.

According to a Human Rights Watch report published in June 2014 detailing the treatment asylum seekers and migrants face when in detention: "They [the detainees] said guards beat them with iron rods, sticks, and rifle butts, and whipped them with cables, hose pipes, and rubber whips made of car tires and plastic tubes, sometimes over prolonged periods of time on the soles of their feet. They also said the guards had burned them with cigarettes, kicked and punched them on their torsos and heads, and used electric shocks on them. In one centre five detainees said guards suspended them upside down from a tree and then whipped them."