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Mahmoud Abdelwahed reports from a detention centre in the Libyan capital Tripoli. Leonard Doyle from the International Organization for Migration joins Counting the Cost to discuss Libya's modern-day slavery. The UN-backed government in Libya said it's looking into allegations that African migrants are being sold at 'slave markets' in Libya. According to reports, the trade works by preying on the tens of thousands of vulnerable people who risk everything on what's been described as the deadliest route on earth. They use smartphones to connect with people smugglers to get them to the coast in the hope that they can cross the Mediterranean into Europe. There is no proper registration process for the tens of thousands of refugees arriving in Libya. According to reports, the business of detention centres is unsupervised in some parts of the country and stories of torture, rape and forced labour have emerged. When the centres get too crowded, people are then allegedly sold off like goods in an open market. The International Organization for Migration says trade in humans has become so normalised that people are being bought and sold in public for as little as $400.