At first, I thought there was no possibility that Segen and Abi had been detained in Libya or elsewhere, but then I read this: http://migrantreport.org/hello-i-have-a-big-problem-but-im-alive/ Apparently, there are, without question, refugees out there who are being detained indefinitely and who haven’t been able to contact relatives. I assumed the motive for detention was money, meaning refugees would be “arrested” and then told to call relatives to wire or transfer money to the “authorities.” Maybe that happens a lot, but apparently not always. There are at least 26 detention centers in Libya (official and unofficial — including the Tripoli Zoo) as of February 2015 known by the Global Detention Project: http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/africa/libya/list-of-detention-sites.html with an unknown number of total detainees. It would be great if we could get someone — maybe a humanitarian agency like the Red Crescent? — into each of those 26 centers and looking for at least one of the 243. And another thought on the smugglers, if Measho or Ibrahim could be convinced that helping to find at least one of the 243 alive might reduce their potential punishment in an Italian court, I wonder if that would entice them to remember a few more details? They each have Italian public defender attorneys assigned and listed in the court papers. I wonder if those public defenders might be convinced it would be in their client’s best interests to help produce at least one of the 243?