Torture 'widespread' in Libyan jails - UN report

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Torture and ill-treatment, sometimes resulting in death, is "widespread" in Libyan jails, a new UN report says.

The report says torture is most frequent used "immediately after arrest and during the first days of interrogation".

The UN estimates about 8,000 people are still being held in relation to the 2011 conflict which ended in the overthrow of Col Gaddafi.

The vast majority are being held without due process, the report says.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24356037

[Turbineguy]

1. Would it be insensitive to suggest

we send them a few republican congressmen to practice on?

[seveneyes]

2. I thought we helped liberate them

Maybe it was not such a good idea after all. Are we still sending arms to Syrian killers too? These peace dividends are headed in the wrong direction.

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. The US government bears some responsibility for this since we helped overthrow Gaddafi.

But I suppose it's all good because the crazy dictator is gone.

[KamaAina]

4. Mission accomplished!

[Luschnig]

5. The change of seasons makes all the difference . . .

after all this is springtime torture where birdies tweet, blossoms bloom and people scream.

[leveymg]

6. Still bringing democracy and smiles across Libya and the entire region.

[arewenotdemo]

7. Oh. My. God.

Sometime around her "We came, we saw, he died" moment, no doubt.

[frylock]

8. another imperialist success story!

and hey, don't forget to vote Clinton in 2016!

[JI7]

10. i don't get this , are you blaming Hillary Clinton for this ?

[leveymg]

11. Along w/Petraeus, and half of Washington, London and Paris. Yes.

Not to mention these humanitarian angels.



The serial regime change operations that destroyed Libya and Syria would never have happened without her, him and them.

[uberblonde]

9. Isn't that why we sent people there?

So that we wouldn't be the ones torturing them?