Amid Libya’s political fragmentation and security breakdown, migrants and refugees have been left exposed to grave dangers, with their safety and basic rights under constant threat.

On September 8, 2025, Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights issued a statement urging head of the Egyptian regime Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to consider granting a presidential pardon to a number of detainees, including Alaa Abdel Fattah.

Egypt’s Badr 3 and New Valley prisons embody a brutal system of political repression, marked by hunger strikes, torture, and the systematic denial of basic rights.

Although the new Syrian state has announced practical steps to address the situation of Syrian detainees in the notorious Roumieh prison east of Beirut, conditions appear to be steadily worsening.

With Assad's prisons crumbling, Egypt now stands as the region's largest detention center, holding the highest number of detainees, surpassing even the Palestinians in Israeli prisons.