TRIPOLI – Daily, Libya is becoming a den of horror for Africans, especially immigrants and 17-Year-Old Hulle Xayyib is the latest victim.
Xayyib left Waadara district in Ethiopia in search of greener pasture but was caught in the web of horrific Libyan assailants bent to end the life of anyone who made it through the Mediterranean Sea – after torturing and filming them.
According to the footage, the minor was tortured with his manhood being chopped off.
An activist and survivor, David Yambio, in a post on X on Tuesday, said he was sent the horrific footage of Xayyib being tortured by the assailants allegedly led by Mohammed I. Al-Masri.
According to the post, “If you are reading this, you have a responsibility to spread awareness!
“I just don’t know how I can sleep if I wake up at 2 in the night just to receive this horrible footage from Libya and this would be Hulle Xayyib 17 from Waadara district, Ethiopia.
“It is as I first saw it.”
If you are reading this, you have a responsibility to spread awareness!
I just don’t know how I can sleep if I wake up at 2 in the night just to receive this horrible footage from Libya and this would be Hulle Xayyib 17 from Waadara district, Ethiopia.
It is as I first saw it pic.twitter.com/B608ABbZlZ
— David Yambio (@DavidYambio) February 4, 2025
Xayyib is not the only victim who has been severely tortured, earlier 20-year-old Naima Jamal, and several others and the numbers keep increasing.
Later, Refugees In Libya, a nonprofit and rights group, presented a report titled “State Trafficking – Expulsions and Sale of Migrants from Tunisia to Libya” to the European Union.
The group said the Libyan government is supporting torturers such as Al-Masri, instead of fighting traffickers.
“Today at the European Parliament we held the event “Black Resistance”, organised with @Left_EU.
“While the government, instead of fighting the traffickers as it falsely promises, supports a torturer like #Almasri, we have chosen to give space to the truth about what really happens in #Libya and #Tunisia.
“We presented the report “State Trafficking – Expulsions and Sale of Migrants from Tunisia to Libya” (statetrafficking.net), denouncing the involvement of Tunisian authorities in human trafficking together with Libyan militias.
“An investigation that tears the veil on the horror of the policies of externalization of the European border and institutional complicity.
“We talked about resistance, solidarity and self-organization.
“A huge thank you to the researchers and, above all, to the witnesses who, with their courage, made it possible to affirm a painful truth. And to the guests who enriched this event with their interventions.
“The fight does not stop here. In the name of humanity and internationalism, we must continue to fight, inside and outside the institutions.
“Against Fortress Europe and systemic racism, for freedom of movement and equality!” the group posted on X on Tuesday.
