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Ayatollahs of Iran Watch Libya's Gaddafi Practice the Art of Violent Repression
(Telegraph-UK) Con Coughlin - According to Human Rights Watch, at Libya's Abu Salim prison in 1996, 1,200 prisoners were herded by security forces into the main prison courtyard following a riot over poor conditions that had resulted in the deaths of two guards. A team of Gaddafi's special units then opened fire with grenades and machine guns on the compound. Any prisoner that survived the onslaught, which lasted for three hours, were finished off with pistols. The current unrest was provoked by the arrest of a prominent human rights lawyer who was campaigning on behalf of the families of the Libyan prisoners who were killed.