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Libya militias rampant Tripoli July 6, 2012 a.. HUNDREDS of armed militias have taken a stranglehold on Libya as it heads for its first election of the post-Gaddafi era, a report has warned. Amnesty International said the country's transitional authorities have effectively granted militias immunity from prosecution in the name of protecting the revolution. The 72-page report documents dozens of cases of arbitrary arrest, long-term detention, beatings and torture of anyone suspected of loyalty to Gaddafi. It visited 15 unofficial prisons. ''It is deeply depressing that the authorities have failed so comprehensively to break the grip of the militias on Libyan security,'' said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty's deputy director for northern Africa. Militias vary in size from gangs guarding neighbourhoods to small de facto armies of the sort in Zintan that is holding Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, and which detained International Criminal Court lawyer Melinda Taylor and her translator, Helene Assaf. Militia raids on suspects often involve theft of anything they can lay their hands on, said Diana Eltahawy, the report's author. Most are refusing to disarm or join the army or police. ''What needs to change is that the government needs to at least admit what is happening … If they don't control it, it will be a very, very difficult culture to change,'' Ms Eltahawy said. TELEGRAPH Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/libya-militias-rampant-20120705-21jxh.html#ixzz1zt77pu6f [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
