Organization has urged Libya not to detain people without orders from the Public Prosecution (Reuters)
Asked Amnesty International (Amnesty International) the new authorities in Libya to put an end to arbitrary detention and widespread violations of the rights of detainees.
The organization urged the Human Rights Committee - the London-based - that the authorities not to arrest people without warrant of the Attorney General, and subject to detention centers for the supervision of the Ministry of Justice.
Revealed in a report issued Thursday under the title "violations of the rights of detainees abuse of Libya the new" pattern of attacks by beating and ill-treatment of prisoners of the soldiers of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and detainees suspected of loyalty to him and the alleged mercenaries, in order to extract confessions or to punish detainees.
She also said that "armed militias" had detained about 2,500 people in Tripoli and the corner since late August / August, and held almost all of them without warrants and without the role of the Attorney General or the Ministry of Justice, at most.
According to the report, African countries in sub-Saharan Africa, suspected of being mercenaries, make up between a third and half of the detainees.
The organization pointed out that the Libyans are black turn of the violations, in particular, especially the residents of the Toargh which was the base for the forces of Gaddafi.
Said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa, Amnesty International, "There is a real danger that some repeated patterns of the past unless action is taken a firm and immediate."
Source: UPI
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