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2012-01-29 Africa North

UN Comissioner Calls on Libya's NTC to Take Control of Prisons

[Tripoli Post] The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday that Libya's transitional government must take control of all makeshift prisons to prevent further atrocities against detainees.

Navi Pillay said that several former rebel groups are holding as many as 8,000 prisoners in 60 detention centres around the country, adding, in a statement to AP, that there's torture, extrajudicial executions, and rape of both men and women.

She said she is particularly concerned about sub-Saharan African detainees whom the brigades automatically assume to be fighters for former Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffy.
...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly happen to them...

Two days ago, aid group Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata because it said torture was so rampant that some detainees were brought for care only to make them fit for further interrogation.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
~~Amnesia~~ Amnesty International said it had recorded widespread prisoner abuse in other cities that led to the deaths of several inmates.

Pillay, who on Wednesday briefed the UN Security Council about Libya, said the transitional government would need help to take control of the prisons and run them properly.

"Something has to be done immediately to assist the authorities for the state to take control of these detention centers," she said.

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