About 4,000 people are still being held in militia detention centres in Libya, often in secret and many are tortured, a UN envoy said Thursday.
Ian Martin, head of the UN mission to Libya, said good progress was being made toward holding the country's first democratic election, but militia prisons were one of a number of "serious obstacles" to establishing the rule of law.
"Cases of mistreatment and torture of detainees continue," Martin told the UN Security Council. The UN mission has raised "deep concern" over the deaths in April of three people at a detention centre in Misrata which comes under government authority.
Martin said there was "credible information" that the deaths were caused by torture and that at least seven other people had been tortured at the same prison. Full story...
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Ian Martin, head of the UN mission to Libya, said good progress was being made toward holding the country's first democratic election, but militia prisons were one of a number of "serious obstacles" to establishing the rule of law.
"Cases of mistreatment and torture of detainees continue," Martin told the UN Security Council. The UN mission has raised "deep concern" over the deaths in April of three people at a detention centre in Misrata which comes under government authority.
Martin said there was "credible information" that the deaths were caused by torture and that at least seven other people had been tortured at the same prison. Full story...
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