| 5,636,410 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
Arab groups take to the streets in a protest demonstration against Israel after they had taken control of Yasser Arafat's compound. There were also demonstrations in Lebanon, Sudan and Yemen. |
| 5,636,414 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
Libyan men beat an Ethiopian man in April 2002 |
| 5,636,419 |
32.7571 |
12.72764 |
Libya |
|
Libyan citizens and a police officer beat three men of different nationality with sticks and stones in Zawiyya. |
| 5,636,423 |
31.75662 |
13.99422 |
Libya |
|
On 10 September 2002 two men were arrested at a petrol station in Bani Walid. While detained, they were allegedly beaten with thick cables and beaten on the soles of the feet (falaqa). |
| 5,636,429 |
32.7571 |
12.72764 |
Libya |
|
A prisoner from sub-Saharan Africa said that Libyan authorities held him in Zawiyya police station without food or water for some days after his arrest in August 2003. He alleged that mukafaha agents (special police units) then tied his hands behind his back and used a piece of wood or an iron bar to hang him from the wall. This happened for two or three hours at a time, he said, and sometimes he was beaten too. |
| 5,636,434 |
32.86667 |
13.15 |
Libya |
|
Libyan police who were armed but in civilian clothes arrested more than 100 Ethiopians and Eritreans in the suburb of Gurgee. The police used sticks and a plastic pipe to beat the men. |
| 5,636,439 |
32.37535 |
15.09254 |
Libya |
|
An Ethiopian woman died after she went on a hunger strike to protest the conditions in a Misrata prison. |
| 5,636,444 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
An Eritrean national was allegedly beaten by a guard with a wire while in Jadaida Prison in Tripoli in January 2004. |
| 5,636,449 |
24.16667 |
23.26962 |
Libya |
|
An Eritrean seeking asylum was arrested outside Kufra in March 2004 for lack of documents. He was beaten by the guards on the basis of his religion. |
| 5,636,454 |
24.16667 |
23.26962 |
Libya |
|
Prison guards made all the men in a camp in Kufra strip naked and lie down on the ground. Approximately ten guards beat the men on their heads and bodies with rubber batons. |
