Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) is holding about 2,500 detainees in the capital Tripoli alone, many of whom have been beaten and subjected to other ill-treatment and not given access to lawyers or judicial proceedings, Amnesty International, the London-based human-rights watchdog, says.
Prisoners interviewed by the group's researchers said they had been held for various durations, from a few days to a few months and that with rare exception they had not been arrested under any kind of legal order.
In the report released on Thursday, Detention Abuses Staining the New Libya, Amnesty said mistreatment most commonly involves beatings, particularly with wooden sticks or ropes on the feet.
At least two guards in two different detention facilities told Amnesty researchers they beat detainees in order to extract "confessions" more quickly. Full story...
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