Photo © 2014 Christopher Occhicone
Thousands of people have been detained without charge in Libya for more than a year. Many have described torture and other forms of ill-treatment. The widespread and systematic nature of these detentions may constitute a crime against humanity.
Hanan Salah, our Libya researcher, is the only person from an international human rights organization to have visited prisons there since the UN and International Red Cross pulled out of the country last year, citing security reasons. In this interview she talks about what she found in Libya’s jails, and how an attack by Islamic State (also known as ISIS) fighters on a nearby prison forced her to change plans.
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