2014 Amnesty International

Amnesty International found that the elements of the pro-Gaddafi forces to leave the 19 detainees to face their fate to die of suffocation after being held inside a closed metal containers in an area of northwest Libya, and that in the midst of extreme heat and high temperatures typical during the month of June. He described kontajner the three survivors of how the elements of the pro-Gaddafi forces tortured them, and then detained the company of 26 other detainees in Hawita Shipping densely detainees sixth day of June in one of the construction sites in five, which lies about 120 km to the east of Tripoli. And they have been subjected to temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius, and were forced to drink their own urine and race after running out of their stocks of scarce water. The captors ignored the cries of distress that they unleashed, and they responded by saying: "Akhrsoa, oh rats!" This report is the first reports of the incident which occurred during June last year, since it was banned from the authors of the reports of independent access to the area of the five, so the fall in the hands of forces of the National Transitional Council on 21 August / August. She said Diana Eltahawy, a researcher competent affairs of the North African region to Amnesty International, saying: "This is a reality show where and unequivocally terrible treatment, and non-human to a group of people, mostly civilians." The establishment of any party to the conflict to kill or torture of prisoners is a war crime. A team of Amnesty International examined Hawita shipping Almusnootain of metal, which they used to hold detainees in the site five. These containers are designed to make them airtight when it closed kontajner its doors - windows do not have, nor have the means for ventilation - but dozens of small holes, which was formed by the bullets that were fired at the metal walls of each Alhautin was the only ventilation ports are available. The 19 detainees held in the container larger - survived only ten of them - at a time when it does not work, only one detainee only alive out of the container other Minor (two-meter display, and a length of 6 meters), which was used for the detention of 10 people. Some of the detainees have been held in the same location since May 20 / May. In the end, the guards open the gates Alhautin on the afternoon of June 6, and then they transferred the eleven survivors to other detention centers in Tripoli, before being released on August 21 / August, followed by the death of one of them as a result of kidney failure in after. Could not determine the fate of the bodies of those who died during their detention kontajner inside the containers mentioned. Roy was one of the survivors who were detained inside Alhautin - Mohammed kontajner Ahmed Ali, who runs a school teacher, and count eight children - how gunmen from his home to arrest him on the twentieth of May / last May after attending anti-government kontajner protests in the region of five. Mohammed also recounted how forced pro-Gaddafi forces that brought to its knees, before they tortured him electric shocks, beaten on the head and back with metal wires. They later detained kontajner in one of the containers larger in area five. According to the report narrated by Ahmad Mohammed kontajner Ali, some of the prisoners and detainees hardly felt shortness of breath sixth day of June, what was of them, however, began early in the morning by banging kontajner on metal doors Mstsrgen guards to get more ventilation and water. In his novel to Amnesty International, has added Mohammed, saying: "People began Baltsaqt on the floor of the container around me, while our clothes dripping with sweat. Had many mutter pronunciation certificates (they may have been in range of perdition), and we were screaming, saying, then we will die here! Got us out! . " Mohammed added: kontajner "Ultimately, I could no longer vision, and I began to feel increasingly wasted. Became disoriented and everything is clear, and then I lost consciousness." Said another survivor at the age of 27 years, named Omar Faraj Alguenin, that the detainees might they have become more desperate with the passing of the hours, and many of them were forced to drink their own urine and ethnicity. He said Faraj said: "It has long cried for hours for help - our situation Like the other detainees in the container the other who Hzu the same." "Then there was silence after that scary, then I realized I was the only one who did not lose consciousness, she screamed, saying: I have all the others died., And then the guards to open the doors at the end. Made me and then I dragged the bodies from the feet to the outside." And tells Abdul Rahman key Ali, and aged 24 years, and is the sole survivor kontajner of the detainees of the container kontajner Lesser how users fellow detainees die in front of him, saying: "can no longer one of us to stand upright. Was the butter has begun to get out of the mouths of some people, ... , and I saw my colleagues kontajner in the cell are falling one by one on the floor of the container without motionless. ... and I think I fell, and my head hit the ground, ... However, I was able to regain consciousness and eventually kontajner to find myself covered in blood. ... I've kontajner had days days of hell. "
Middle East and North Africa
Publication Date: 12 سبتمبر 2014
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