Slave Auctions caught on tape in Libya.

Migrants from West Africa leaving their countries for Europe in hope of finding work and an education. In order to make to Europe, they have to cross through the Libyan desert many of them are captured and put into the market.  In a vice documentary, pregnant women said that when the cameras weren't rolling they kicked and beaten. In other videos, men were beaten with whips and others were burned.   These migrants are soon auctioned off and sold. Young girls were sold as a sex slave and many men and women were killed for their organs. In a recent video that surfaced a man is addressing an unseen crowd where he says " Big strong boys for farm work".  Being auctioned off are 3 men and they are sold for $1200 $400 a piece. In a later segment from, the video an unseen man ask " what happened to the ones from Niger" he is told that they were sold off. The video surfaced after CNN was sent the footage from a contact. CNN travels to the Libyan capital Tripoli where 1 to 2 slave auctions happen at least every month. CNN also travels to town in Libya in which an auction is taking place they record footage using secret cameras. They are ushered into a warehouse where an auction is taking place.  One by One men are brought out as the bidding begins the prices range from $400 to $550 to $700 being the highest. The reporter from CNN tries to speak to the man behind the auction but he refuses. Migrants who aren't put into auction are sent to detention centers in Libya.  All of them say that they were held against their will. One man details how he was tortured in by beatings, electric shocks, and being starved and how the entire ordeal was filmed and posted online.  CNN has turned over the footage to Libyan authorities but slave auctions are still taking place today.