Black people are being enslaved in Libya. Right now. This is not history, it's a live, documented crime hiding behind the word "migrant crisis." The trap used is a fake job in Europe ad, a smuggler's promise, a debt owed for the journey. Then the border into Libya, and everything changes. Migrants are bought and sold in car parks and garages in southern Libya, at a rate between $200 and $500 a head. Human beings, priced like cargo. Amnesty International's research found something worse than the selling itself, prison guards extort captives and demand ransom from their relatives, sometimes torturing a prisoner so the family can hear the screams over the phone. This isn't only West and East African migrants. In 2026, the BBC found over 300 young men from Iraqi Kurdistan kidnapped in Libya and held for $5,000 ransom each, with militias threatening to harvest their kidneys if families didn't pay fast enough. At least one hostage is known to have died. In April, more than 100 East African migrants escaped a trafficking camp in Bani Walid where they'd been held hostage and tortured, some for up to three years. 15 were killed during the escape itself. It is a profit-driven system of abduction, torture, rape, forced labor and extortion built into Libya's migration route. The EU keeps funding the Libyan coast guard that intercepts migrants at sea and hands them straight back into these same detention centers. This is slavery. Don't let bureaucratic language like "irregular migration," and "detention centers" launder what's happening to Black and brown bodies in Libya right now.