and now, THE More Truthful PART of the REPORT from Libyan Network for Human Rights libyan Network for Human Rights, 23 NOV. 2013: Warning perhaps awakens Libya on torture and deaths in custody UN report on torture in Libya give details of the 11 cases occurred in 2013, evidence suggests where to torturing detainees to death, passing mention 16 other similar case occurred in 2011 and 2012 [TRUST ME: THERE ARE HUNDREDS MORE THAN THIS FIGURE.] By: Magdalena Moroccan researcher in Libyan affairs Amnesty International. Comes a new report issued by the United Nations on torture and other ill-treatment in Libya to serve as a warning bell should draw the attention of the Libyan authorities. Report details 11 cases occurred in 2013, evidence suggests where to torturing detainees to death, passing mention of 16 cases other similar occurred in 2011 and 2012. The report includes details of the rape of detainees by using objects such as sticks and bottles, and hung upside down and beaten for hours, and electrocuted or burned with cigarettes or metal parts are heated for this purpose. The report describes how detainees remain trapped in inhumane conditions - as some of them are forced to sleep on the floor of Bllaha urine and covered in feces, and are forced to drink their own urine to stay alive. Others were held naked for periods of up to 20 days without the availability of mattress or blanket. This was not the methods stranger to prisons visited by Amnesty International in Libya, not to mention, of course, about the spread of the beating on a large scale using whips, wire and plastic hoses, chains, metal bars and sticks; Every so strong presence in prisons run by the state and militias alike. Booking facilities represent the ugly face of the uprising in Libya. And what is always a deep breath ahead of a visit to one of the detention centers in the framework of missions Amnesty International, since I can not expect what youll never see it. During the period between September / September 2011 and July 2012, the organization has documented the occurrence of 20 deaths in custody, it enhanced medical reports and criminal. In spite of the improvement in treatment significantly in some detention centers since that period, there is still widespread torture on a regular basis in some centers, especially in the early days of the booking period. I will never forget the stories that I heard last month from a group of detainees who were recently transferred from a prison run by a militia. It describes them what happened to them when they violated an order issued by the militia under which detainees are prohibited from communicating with each other. It was the death of offenders includes being forced to stand still and their faces to the wall with a very short time to visit the toilet. He told me how those detained were forced to practice push-ups or rolling over when they were being kicked and beaten all over the body using metal rods or wires or hoses or hung from their hands for up to 24 hours. Lee said two of the detainees that they were forced to eat vomit that came out of them due to physical exhaustion. As others have told me of the detainees had been held for weeks in solitary confinement, and even throughout the 74 days in some cases, in the cells does not exceed an area of one square meter so that the prisoner can not sit on the body where only squat. With the non-availability of toilets, forcing detainees in solitary confinement to defecate in plastic bottles, not only to get one meal a day. In some cases, the guards entered the cell and are busy beating the prisoner on the head. And let one of the detainees, 68-year-old hanging from a tree upside down for 40 minutes while the guards were busy beating him with a wooden stick on his stomach. That is, meanwhile, was his treatment after his arrest at the hands of one of the militia of the Supreme Security Committee - a coalition of armed groups affiliated to the Ministry of the Interior. And then forced to walk the old prisoner on his knees while the guards continued to beat him with the butts of their rifles until he lost consciousness. I am always satisfied whenever the authorities accept the Booking recognition statement issued by the Ministry of Justice, Amnesty International, including ideally positioned entry centers; since then will not be forced to engage in a debate about whether we can enter the detention center or not. He considered it promising each time to enter the prison has an administrative structure and see where the man who introduced himself to us as the director of the prison, which is already well Ncicvh recognition of prison guards and detainees for it. But things are not going that way, as always shows a United Nations report issued recently. Since 2012, negotiating the Libyan authorities to hand over detainees since the days of the armed conflict and after the militias have formed in various parts of the world and from hidden parts of the Magreb in order to fight THE GREAT JAMAHIRIYA and Colonel Muammar al-Qathafi. Those negotiations and come within the scope of a broader strategy aimed at imposing the rule of law. The authorities have so by incorporating elements of the militia in the crews and the Ministries of Justice, defense or interior. But in the meantime, failed to provide the necessary training on how to deal with detainees, and failed to scrutiny should also be in the record of ex-combatants to ensure that the accession of anyone suspected of having committed crimes punishable under international law to state institutions. Although the Justice Department says it now controls about 37 prison - home to a total of 6,400 detainees - UN report indicates in a lot of cases that such control is controlled by only a formality. It has a pyramid militias and their own chain of command, and rarely respond to the instructions of the government or the judicial police, which is supposed to be theoretically responsible for managing the daily business in the prisons. In addition, there are 4,000 people under the custody of the military police and the Supreme Security Committee and the Department of combat crime, which also incorporate ex-combatants in the ranks of its elements; It is noteworthy that some of those still being held at the militia, which refused to disband or merge with the state institutions. This did not stop the militias for the detention of persons and torture in places of detention in unofficial built apartments or buildings or both administrative farms. [And the truth is that the figures here again are in reality, thousands HIGHER!] ...there is a risk of the possibility of committing crimes on behalf of the state, and that is to institutionalize torture as a United Nations report indicates. There is more to be done in order to ensure the survival of the human rights principles at the heart of the process of dismantling the militias and disarming and reintegration of its members, being careful not to allow both suspected of having committed crimes punishable under international law, mergers and thawing in state institutions... https://facebook/photo.php?fbid=420515424730137&set=a.157905070991175.32493.100003150495041&type=1&theater
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