The Times has discovered that thousands of migrants are using a new, hybrid route to try to come to the UK: legal flights and visas, combined with illegal border crossings. But most don’t make it; the smuggling gangs detain them in Libya, to use them as slaves or for organ harvesting. Our reporter went to meet them.

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Flights, visas, and kidnappers: The new migrant route to Britain

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Flights, visas, and kidnappers: The new migrant route to Britain