Amnesty urges Libya to set about 'blot on one's copybook'

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Libya's interim authorities must boundary summary custody and damage of inmates, Amnesty Intercontinental says.
 
In a probe, the London-based rights group 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 exceptionally 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 Citizen Transitional Council said he had been captured in the progenitors's embattled home city of Sirte.
 
However, officials in the NTC fastness of Benghazi could not back up the claims, which have sparked celebratory gunfire in several cities.
 
If confirmed, Mutassim Gaddafi's capture would be a crucial breakthrough in return the NTC, says the BBC's Caroline Hawley in Tripoli.
 
He is a chief officer in Col Gaddafi's army and was a civil deposit advisor to his father.
 
Meantime NTC forces say they age check most of Sirte, following stormy fighting.
Making 'plain demoralize'
 
Amnesty published its report - entitled Imprisonment Abuses Staining the Stylish Libya - after interviewing some 300 prisoners.
 
It visited 11 custody facilities in and around the finances Tripoli and in the cities of Zawiya and Misrata between 18 August, justifiable before Tripoli mow down, and 21 September.
 
The troupe said it had found a exemplar of torture and abuse of suspected Gaddafi loyalists, as well as soldiers and suspected mercenaries.
 
"In some cases there is clear demonstration of torture in order to extort confessions or as a penalty," the gunshot said.
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    The NTC has to operation urgently to translate their open commitments into action, in the forefront such abuses happen to entrenched and dye the fresh Libya's generous rights put”
 
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It said that researchers had start torture instruments in a certain detention the ladies', and also had heard whipping and screaming sounds in another prison.
 
At least two guards from separate captivity facilities had admitted to beating inmates to come confessions, Amnesty said.
 
In another case, a 17-year-old Chadian accused of rape and being a Gaddafi money-grubbing had said the beatings were so oppressive that he had certain to "concede".
 
"I ended up telling them what they wanted to hear. I told them I raped women and killed Libyans," the Chadian jailbird told Amnesty.
'No indulgence of abuse'
 
In the capital Tripoli and surrounding areas deserted, NTC forces eat captured some 2,500 people, mostly without block warrants.
 
"We understand that the transitional authorities are facing myriad challenges, but if they do not put out a nitid bust with the ago now, they resolve effectively be sending outlying 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 send their civic commitments into action, ahead such abuses become firmly planted and blot on the escutcheon the late-model Libya's weak rights record."
 
The report also urged the Libyan authorities to unseat all incarceration facilities below the justice the cloth's control to allow inmates to challenge the lawfulness of their arrests.
 
The NTC has recurrently said it is committed to upholding human rights and reforming the homeland's justice system.
 
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The Amnesty description raises fears of a return 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.