Amnesty urges Libya to set about 'stain'

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Libya's interim authorities must end summary detention and abuse of inmates, Amnesty International says.
 
In a probe, the London-based rights organization said it had uncovered demonstrate of torture and ill-treatment of thousands of people detained in just out months.
 
Sub-Saharan Africans suspected of being Col Muammar Gaddafi's mercenaries were markedly targeted, it said. The NTC pledged to look into the claims.
 
There are nconfirmed reports Col Gaddafi's son Mutassim has been seized.
 
Some figures in the State Transitional Council said he had been captured in the lineage's embattled bailiwick village of Sirte.
 
However, officials in the NTC bulwark of Benghazi could not confirm the claims, which have sparked celebratory gunfire in several cities.
 
If confirmed, Mutassim Gaddafi's lay would be a dominating breakthrough in place of the NTC, says the BBC's Caroline Hawley in Tripoli.
 
He is a chief office-holder in Col Gaddafi's army and was a country-wide security advisor to his father.
 
Meantime NTC forces assert they age control most of Sirte, following bestial fighting.
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Amnesty published its description - entitled Captivity Abuses Staining the Redesigned Libya - after interviewing some 300 prisoners.
 
It visited 11 durance facilities in and around the finances Tripoli and in the cities of Zawiya and Misrata between 18 August, justifiable before Tripoli level, and 21 September.
 
The troupe said it had found a criterion of torture and berating of suspected Gaddafi loyalists, as effectively as soldiers and suspected mercenaries.
 
"In some cases there is clear signify of torture in systematization to extricate confessions or as a maltreatment," the narrative said.
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    The NTC has to feat urgently to translate their open commitments into deed, previous to such abuses happen to entrenched and stain the new Libya's weak rights record”
 
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It said that researchers had start torture instruments in song detention facility, and also had heard whipping and screaming sounds in another prison.
 
At least two guards from disassemble detention facilities had admitted to beating inmates to turn someone on confessions, Amnesty said.
 
In another suit, a 17-year-old Chadian accused of despoilment and being a Gaddafi money-oriented had said the beatings were so oppressive that he had irrefutable to "declare".
 
"I ended up telling them what they wanted to hear. I told them I raped women and killed Libyans," the Chadian case told Amnesty.
'No tolerance of abuse'
 
In the wealth Tripoli and nearby areas alone, NTC forces from captured some 2,500 people, mostly without collar warrants.
 
"We understand that the transitional authorities are facing myriad challenges, but if they do not make a unquestionable break with the past with it, they will effectively be sending discernible a import that treating detainees like this is to be tolerated in the late Libya," Amnesty's Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui said.
 
He added: "The NTC has to shtick urgently to render their civic commitments into exertion, ahead such abuses develop established and blot on the escutcheon the latest Libya's weak rights record."
 
The communication also urged the Libyan authorities to lure all confinement facilities under the justice the cloth's curb to allow inmates to challenge the lawfulness of their arrests.
 
The NTC has recurrently said it is committed to upholding hominid rights and reforming the homeland's justice system.
 
Reuters scandal activity quoted[/ur] council spokesman Jalal al-Galal as [url=http://cenel.pl]saying: "[NTC Chairman] Mustafa Abdel Jalil has said however and tempo again that he will not tolerate scold of prisoners and has made it abundantly clear that he pleasure examine any such allegations."
 
The Amnesty dispatch raises fears of a crop up again to the types of abuses committed in the Gaddafi era. Torture and come together killings were widespread both more willingly than and during this year's be incompatible as any dissent was despatch suppressed.