Three Kenyan women who were lured to Libya by the Islamic State two years ago have been brought back after they were arrested in Egypt, the Daily Nation reports.
The three were arrested by Egyptian authorities in Cairo on August 24, detained for two days and then surrendered to the Kenyan embassy.
After the arrest, the three told interrogators that they had escaped from Libya where an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis) operative had held them captive, this according to the report.
According to a security report, the three Firthoza Ali Ahmed, Ms Aisha Mafudh Ashur, and Ms Tawfiqa Dahir Adan were arrested on grounds of being in Egypt illegally and without travel documents.
According to the report, a contact of the women promised to help them get passports and facilitate their journey to Europe, where they would get good-paying jobs.
They left the country into Juba, South Sudan, where they met a contact Mr Suleiman who hosted them for a week.
According to the security document, Suleiman confiscated confiscated their travel documents, laptops, phones and other electronic devices and ordered them not to try to communicate with anyone back at home.
The document further states that the women together with others who they met in Juba were flown to Awail in South Sudan, where they were put in a house with 30 Somalis awaiting to be trafficked to Libya.
They spent two weeks in Awail, after which they were smuggled through bumpy roads in remote areas and hidden in different houses until they reached Sudan.
In Sudan, another man, identified as Asad, took over. He hosted them for a month then took them to Libya.
In the desert, the Magafe network, allegedly known as a smuggling syndicate in many African countries and works closely with Isis took over.
“They were ordered into a lorry and driven to a makeshift camp where they put up for several months. Here, the women and other young men were subjected to extreme inhuman conditions. The girls were repeatedly raped and beaten. Sometimes they would stay for days without food and water,” says the latest report.
They women have been put under a government programme designed to rehabilitate terror suspects either rescued or who have voluntarily surrendered to the authorities.
