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After a terrible two-year ordeal on three countries - bought and sold by people, the drug dealers and the survival of the fuel on an Inflatable Boat while trying to cross The Mediterranean sea - Mohamed finally gave up hope.

The Somali man, woman, Leyla, 21, remembers The Day when he burned himself to death after hearing that you are not on a UN-refugee aid-list.

they were evacuated from the Triq al-Sikka prison run by a pro-government militia in the capital Tripoli, where the United Nations with humanitarian assistance. (The Names of the couple were changed for Leyla's safety. )

"we were told it would be leaving us to continue. So, when the new list came, Mohamed asked me to go and Check It out. But our names were not there. I had to tell him that we are already over again.

"So many people came after you had left us. Mohamed was so excited and confused. It was asked before in the early evening when it happens. I saw Mohamed. He was burned to death. I was told he had covered himself in petrol and set himself On Fire . "

'Planned for the evacuation of'Leyla, that the conditions in the detention Center, a 12-run in Western Libya, nominally by the government in Tripoli, complain about the value of the goods.

"I was Locked In a small room with 50 other women, and only a bucket for the toilet.

"We have hardly eaten, and it was not enough water. So many people were sick with TB, some died in my arms. I was beaten, and we were Tortured with electricity, she told the Bbc .

Migrants , as these are held in Zintan in the picture In July , in the crowded prisons Mohamed later died in the hospital, She Said .

The UN refugee Agency (UNHCR) told the Bbc , UN-employees, the detention Center had visited, on The Day he died, but his death was unrelated to The Visit .

"The Deceased asylum applicant and his wife were both added to the planned evacuation in the next month," it.

UNHCR denies that his work at the centre of legitimizes it, and says that it actually helps to set the conditions to improve there. But some of the helpers are not in agreement and the two groups have stopped working with the UNHCR.

The pair fled the Islamist al-Shabab militia in Somalia in 2016 and ended up in the hands of people trafficking gangs in Libya.

After a shootout between the traffickers in Bani Walid, which is called the commercial capital of the Western part of Libya, you have to escape and managed to try on-Board is a blow-up boat with 140 other Migrants , the journey across The Mediterranean sea.

But the boat ran out of fuel and the Libyan coast guard who are trained and supported by the European Union (EU), forcibly took them to Tripoli, where Migrants were met by UN staff And Then transported by military truck to the prison.

Libyan coast guard 'consultation', The UNHCR, whose mandate for the protection of refugees, and its sister-Agency of the United Nations for the International organization for Migration (IOM), the criticism of other humanitarian workers and The Migrants for cooperation with the Libyan coast guard, which was accused of Human Rights violations during some of the sea rescues.

The Libyan coast guard intercepted thousands of Migrants on the way to Europe every year Since 2015, the UNHCR and the IOM, the provision of training were guard-workshops and equipment of the coast, which intercepted More Than 15,000 people and returned them to Libya in the past year.

Some say that the cooperation with the coast guard affected the impartiality of the two UN agencies.

"working together with the EU, to ensure that the migration problem is not Europe, come to" a humanitarian worker said.

"This is the aim of the EU and some European countries, and I think they [the UNHCR and IOM] are the implementers on the ground. "

currently living in Libya. The European Union tightened measures to prevent Migrants crossing The Mediterranean sea.

In The First three months of the year 2019, around 15 900 refugees and Migrants arrived in Europe via The Mediterranean sea-routes - a 17% less than in the same period in the year 2018.

In a statement, says the EU, that it is "trying to stop global migration, but also works with international partners, management of international migration, protection of Migrants , the Human Rights , prevent dangerous irregular journeys used by illegal traffickers, and ensure opportunities for legal and safe ways".

"global migration needs to be addressed, through numerous channels and in a multilateral approach. In the case of Libya, the EU is working with partners, including UN organisations such as UNHCR and the IOM," The Statement added.

But for Julien Raikman, the MSF mission head in Libya, Migrants should not be taken back to Libya: "It is completely illegal, and actually, that is not what we understand. We are not saying that this is a port of safety. "

More about Libya and The Migrants ' crisis: The UNHCR and the IOM say they act in the interest of saving Migrants .

"We didn't guard in The Migrants ' interests, the coast. We strongly support that The Migrants of the Libyan coast, should not be taken by the Libyan coast guard arbitrarily and, in fact, you should not recorded on all returns. Day for day, our employees give you to search for these places of detention, Migrants help," the IOM said the Bbc .

'aid' militiasThe UNHCR says that his presence in the ports, where the Libyan coast guard to bring the intercepted Migrants is important because it can register and support.

"I do not think that the landing-points is the participation in criminal mechanisms," UNHCR's country manager Jean-Paul Cavalieri, told the Bbc .

Armed militias hold The Real power in Libya since Gaddafi expelled had been in 2011 But critics, including former UNHCR staff feel that their presence legitimized the illegal return of Migrants to Libya and their transfer to the prisons.

"refugees as Leyla danger of being Tortured , abused, by the guards of the arrival, on drugs, drunk in the night, abusing, beating until the refugees decide, in total impunity, that they are going to intentionally starve them for weeks," said Giulia Tranchina, a lawyer who has represented people caught in Libya.

The prisons are supposed to make more like prisons and a Chance for the militia money.

UNHCR's top official admits: "These detention centres, at least some of them work on a business model that includes the smugglers, human traffickers, forced sometimes to work. "

He argues, to legitimize that the UNHCR work in the prisons, they - as they would exist anyway - and by the registration of the detained Migrants , who sold it to Migrants from prevents to human traffickers.

However, witnesses told the Bbc to manage many prisoners never in order to be registered.

'Incompetent' organisationThe United Nations and other non-governmental organizations find that Libya work in a difficult environment and the UNHCR are not accepted by the government in Tripoli.

Since Muammar Gaddafi was ousted and killed in 2011, the country has to fight a battleground, with rival militias for control. The UN-backed government in Tripoli has little power themselves, instead of relying on various Armed groups in the fight against a rival authority with the seat in The East , led by The Rogue general Khalifa Haftar .

A tranche of confidential documents, unpublished reports, and E-Mail correspondence given to the Bbc by a number of sources also reveals a chaotic and "dysfunctional" humanitarian aid, especially when dealing with other NGOs.

"I've never seen this level of incompetence," a humanitarian worker in Libya, said the closely with the UNHCR.

Migrants protest about the conditions in Zintan prison In July , demanding to be registered with the UNHCR Since 2014, the EU has spent a 338m euro ($377m; £303 million) on projects in Libya, which, it says, is to help Migrants , such as Leyla and Mohamed, through the financing of the UN and NGOs.

A UN audit of the UNHCR, published in March, mismanagement of funds, and multiple instances of errors, revealing to assess how much aid was needed, and error in the review of their delivery.

The Report found $2 can be. 9m has been overspent on help, not used. Furthermore, he proposed an invitation to tender for contracts that are not transparent and the question of why the offers that were made, in US dollars instead of local currency.

Documented evidence given to the Bbc shows that the donors are aware of omissions has been made for 2018.

In June, an E-Mail leaked to the Bbc , EU officials and diplomats, spoke of deteriorating conditions in the detention center in Khoms, including violations of Human Rights , the disappearance of Migrants and suspected collusion between prison guards and human traffickers.

More about EU migration crisis: Two foreign NGOs, including the International Medical Corps , then unilaterally suspended their work, citing a lack of response from both the UNHCR and the IOM.

"she kept me, in the same prison for three months after he died. "

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