Libya: child refugees abused in UK-funded detention centres

Children tell of being starved and beaten in camps part-funded by British government

Child refugees are facing abuse and malnutrition in a network of 26 Libyan detention centres the British government is helping to fund, the Guardian has learned.

In the first accounts to the media from minors being held in the camps, the children described being starved, beaten and abused by Libyan police and camp guards. One said the conditions were like "hell on earth".