An account of a bloody crushing of a prison mutiny by the Libyan security forces in 1996, resulting in the estimated deaths of 1,200 inmates. In the summer of 1996, stories began to filter out of ...
A group representing families of Libya’s Abu Salim Prison Massacre victims protested Monday on the 28th anniversary of the killings over the failure to achieve justice in the case. The association ...
The Libyan Doctors Syndicate has condemned the assault on medical staff at Abu Salim Emergency Hospital, where several ...
* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Tweet Widget Facebook Like The sixteenth anniversary of the Abu Salim prison massacreon June 28 to ...
BENGHAZI, Libya -- Every month for nearly 10 years, Ezzedin abu Azza's family traveled to the gates of Abu Salim prison in Tripoli to deliver a care package of clothes, food and medicine, not knowing ...
TRIPOLI, LIBYA — In the 14 years that Islamic activist Saad al-Eshouli spent in a small cell in one of the most notorious prisons of Moammar Gaddafi's Libya, the outside world had become a distant ...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan rebels stormed Tripoli's Abu Salim district, one of the main holdouts of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in the capital, after NATO air strikes on a building in the area on ...