ISIS has controlled Sirte since last August. The central Mediterranean city is the hometown of Libya's former dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the site of some of the final battles of Libya's 2011 revolution. Human Rights Watch interviewed 45 residents of the city for its report, which paints a vivid picture of how ISIS controls every aspect of life, "down to the length of men's trousers, the breadth and color of women's gowns, and the instruction students receive in state schools."
"We were filled with hope. Then step by step, Daesh [ISIS] took over. Now we feel we are cursed," one resident who fled Sirte told HRW....
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/18/478550271/new-report-details-the-horrors-of-life-under-isis-in-sirte-libya?ft=nprml&f=1001
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