تقرير العفو الدولية يتكلم عن المفقودين من المشاشية في سجون الزفتان representatives of the Mashashya communi ty have been unsuccessfully trying to establish the fate of seven persons subjected to en forced disappearance since the end of the conflict, most likely by militias from Zintan. Four relatives, Mohammad Massoud Ali Al-Sweibigh (born in 1978), Mohammad Bel Qasem Mohammad Abu Sitteh (born in 1973), Salem Ibrahim Omar Essa (born in 1984) and Khaled Ibrahim Omar Essa (born in 1984), all originally from Mashashya, disa ppeared following their detention in Tripoli in August 2012. According to t he testimony of a relative, they were arrested during an identity check on the main road in Al-Zahra, an area on the outskirts of Tripoli. The arrest was carried out by members of th e Department of Combating Crime, a body formed by former militiamen at the end of the conflict which subsequently integrated into the Ministry of Interior. After about two days they were transferred to the Qaaqaa Brigade, a Zintan militia nominally under the Minist ry of Defence, in the Fellah area of Tripoli. The relative recounted the events to Amnes ty International, “ During the first few days, I was in telephone contact with my brother. He informed me that he was held together with the others by the Qaaqaa brigade, and that he was allowed to use the phone of a man originally from Zintan. I spoke to the Head of Briga de who told me not to worry. On 12 August, I went to Tripoli with some relatives and we we re allowed to visit them in detention. During the visit, my brother and cousins complained that they were beaten with sticks by the Department of Combating Crime. One of the men was shot in his leg. The Head of Brigade promised that all would be released within one day. A few days later - it was Eid al-fitr [around 19 August] - I called him back, but no one answered. I waited for a few days, and when I did not receive any news, I went back to Tripo li, but was told that my relatives had been transferred to Zintan. They showed me a letter dated 17 August 2012 stating that the men had been transferred to the Military Police pri son in Zintan. The document listed their names and personal belonging s.” Too frightened to visit their relatives in dete ntion in Zintan, the family sought the intervention of elders from Z awiya and Ghirian. The delegation of elders allegedly went to visit the military police prison i n Zintan but was unable to receive any information. The men’s relatives then reported thei r disappearance at the Qasr Ben Ghashir Police Station in Tripoli on 2 October. The case was referred by the General Prosecutor first to the prosecution in Zawiya, then to Jadu in the Na fusa Mountain area. At the time of writing, there had been no results in the investigat ion of the disappearance of the four men
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:44:19 +0000
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