Content_paragraphs:  On 2 February, UNSMIL conducted a joint mission with the United Nations
  
  Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to the Judaydah detention centre in Tripoli to assess the
  
  situation of women and children detained for their alleged affiliation with ISIL. At
  
  the time of the visit, 39 women and 59 children, from Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia,
  
  Iraq, Nigeria, the Syrian Arab Republic and Tunisia, were detained at the facility,
  
  having been transferred in September 2020 from Misratah. Many had spent over five
  
  years in arbitrary detention, with some children born in detention. On 11 February, in
  
  cooperation with the Tunisian Embassy in Libya, UNSMIL conducted a mission to
  
  assess the needs of the women and children held at the Mitiga detention centre in
  
  Tripoli. A total of 14 women and 22 children had been held there for over five years
  
  for their alleged affiliation with ISIL. Some of the children had spent most of their
  
  lives incarcerated, while others had been born in the facility. Accounts suggested that
  
  most of the women had been captured by unknown armed groups from Sabratah and
  
  subjected to torture and sexual violence, including rape. As a result of UNSMIL
  
  advocacy and cooperation by Libyan and Tunisian authorities, all the Tunisian women
  
  and children were repatriated to Tunisia between 12 and 17 March.