Ian Urbina felt cold metal on his forehead as masked men screamed at him to get on the floor.
As heard by us
A prison-side border story that turns policy into immediate danger.
It follows a reporting team in Tripoli as the story pulls them from observer to participant: migrants intercepted at sea, Ali's imprisonment, and the wider chain that runs from smugglers to the coast guard to jail.
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