MEDENINE, Tunisia — For Aisha, sexual slavery was something you only heard about happening to others in television reports, until she found herself locked in a living “hell” in Libya.
“I had left a nightmare only to fall into hell,” said the migrant from Guinea, lured to the North African country that criminal gangs have turned into a den of racketeering.
Aisha fled her home country after five miscarriages: for her in-laws and the neighborhood, she was either sterile or a witch.
But the young woman was simply diabetic.
“I just wanted to disappear from my country,” said Aisha, a graduate in hotel management.
She contacted a former classmate who appeared to have made a …
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