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Would you please comment on why you decided to undo my changes wholesale? Thanks. Undid revision 437340700 by Noclador (talk)
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[[File:Victims of Abu Sleem massacre.JPG|thumb|People at a Benghazi rally looking at the photos of victims of Abu Salim prison massacre (February 2011)]]
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'''Abu Salim prison''' is a [[Supermax|top security prison]] in [[Tripoli, Libya]] which is often described as "notorious" by [[human rights activists]] and other observers.<ref name="notorious Abu Salim">{{Cite web|url=http://www.daylife.com/article/0gNNdjv7Qq32E?q=Libya|title=Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison to be emptied|publisher=[[daylife.com]]
'''Abu Salim prison''' is a [[Supermax|top security prison]] in [[Tripoli, Libya]] which is often described as "notorious" by [[human rights activists]] and other observers.<ref name="notorious Abu Salim">{{Cite web|url=http://www.daylife.com/article/0gNNdjv7Qq32E?q=Libya|title=Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison to be emptied|publisher=[[daylife.com]]
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/24/libyas-notorious-abu-salim-prison-to-be-emptied/|title=Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison|publisher= geneva lunch}}</ref><ref name="CNN libya death">{{Cite news|last1=Robertson|first1=Nic|first2=Paul|last2=Cruickshank|url=http://www.edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/23/libya.death/index.html|title=Jihadist death threatened Libyan peace deal|newspaper=[[CNN]]|date=November 28, 2009}}</ref>
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/24/libyas-notorious-abu-salim-prison-to-be-emptied/|title=Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison|publisher= geneva lunch}}</ref><ref name="CNN libya death">{{Cite news|last1=Robertson|first1=Nic|first2=Paul|last2=Cruickshank|url=http://www.edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/23/libya.death/index.html|title=Jihadist death threatened Libyan peace deal|newspaper=[[CNN]]|date=November 28, 2009}}</ref> [[Amnesty International]] has called for an [[Public inquiry|independent inquiry]] into deaths that occurred there in 1996,<ref name="amnesty 346">{{Cite web|url= http://www.amnesty.org.au/news/comments/346|title=Investigation needed into prison deaths|publisher=[[Amnesty International]]}}</ref> an incident which Amnesty International and other news media refer to as the '''Abu Salim prison massacre'''.<ref name="court celebrates massacre">{{Cite news|url= http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050624/2005062418.html|title=Libyan legal court celebrates Abu Salim prison massacre|publisher=[[Arabic News]]|date=June 24, 2005}}</ref> [[Human Rights Watch]] believes that 1,270 prisoners were killed,<ref>[http://www.binrabah.com/h/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=337:2010-12-26-00-24-18&catid=39:e&Itemid=27 Site news Bilal bin Rabah (the city of Al Bayda, Libya), a meeting with the Libyan Minister of Justice .]</ref><ref name="Human Rights Watch 1270">{{Cite web|url= http://www.hrw.org/es/news/2009/10/16/libya-free-all-unjustly-detained-prisoners|title= Libya: Free All Unjustly Detained Prisoners|publisher= [[Human Rights Watch]]
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}}</ref> and calls it a "site of egregious [[human rights violations]]."<ref name="Human Rights Watch 1270" /> Western governments largely ignored this and no international inquiry was launched, due to "oil interests".<ref>{{cite news |title=Libya revolution: Future scenarios and the West's role |author= |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12577484 |newspaper=BBC News |date=25 February 2011 |accessdate=26 February 2011}}</ref> After the February 17 uprising, in April 2011, inmates of the prison escaped and engaged Gaddafi forces in armed combat at [[Bab al-Azizia]]. {{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}

==Allegations of human rights abuses==
[[Amnesty International]] has called for an [[Public inquiry|independent inquiry]] into deaths that occurred there in 1996,<ref name="amnesty 346">{{Cite web|url= http://www.amnesty.org.au/news/comments/346|title=Investigation needed into prison deaths|publisher=[[Amnesty International]]}}</ref> an incident which some have referred to as the '''Abu Salim prison massacre'''.<ref name="court celebrates massacre">{{Cite news|url= http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050624/2005062418.html|title=Libyan legal court celebrates Abu Salim prison massacre|publisher=[[Arabic News]]|date=June 24, 2005}}</ref> [[Human Rights Watch]] believes that 1,270 prisoners were killed. However, its estimate is mostly based on the account of a single former inmate.<ref>[http://www.binrabah.com/h/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=337:2010-12-26-00-24-18&catid=39:e&Itemid=27 Site news Bilal bin Rabah (the city of Al Bayda, Libya), a meeting with the Libyan Minister of Justice .]</ref><ref name="Human Rights Watch 1270">{{Cite web|url= http://www.hrw.org/es/news/2009/10/16/libya-free-all-unjustly-detained-prisoners|title= Libya: Free All Unjustly Detained Prisoners|publisher= [[Human Rights Watch]]
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}}</ref> HRW also calls the prison a "site of egregious [[human rights violations]]."<ref name="Human Rights Watch 1270" /> Some say that Western governments largely ignored this and no international inquiry was launched, due to "oil interests".<ref>{{cite news |title=Libya revolution: Future scenarios and the West's role |author= |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12577484 |newspaper=BBC News |date=25 February 2011 |accessdate=26 February 2011}}</ref> The Libyan government has said that the killings took place amid confrontation between the government and rebels from the [[Libyan Islamic Fighting Group]], and that some 200 guards were killed, too.<ref>{{cite news|last=Shuaib|title=Libya appoints judge to probe 1996 prison massacre|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/09/06/uk-libya-massacre-idUKTRE5850PJ20090906|accessdate=2 July 2011|date=6 September 2009}}</ref>

==Bin Qumu and the 2010 amnesty for anti-regime prisoners==
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee [[Abu Sufian bin Qumu|bin Qumu]] was a prisoner in Abu Salim. He was sent from the US to Libya in 2007. Three years later he was released as part of a amnesty granted by [[Muammar Gaddafi|Gaddafi]] to anti-regime prisoners. Today, bin Qumu is one of the most prominent leaders of the [[Anti-Gaddafi forces]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Busch|first=Michael K.|title=The Gitmo Files: Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu|url=http://wikiblogged.blogspot.com/2011/04/gitmo-files-abu-sufian-ibrahim-ahmed.html|work=WikiBlogged|accessdate=30 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Libya releases 37 militant Islamists|url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/342001,releases-37-militant-islamists.html|work=EarthTimes.org|accessdate=30 June 2011}}</ref>


==YouTube videos==
==YouTube videos==

Revision as of 11:16, 2 July 2011

32°50′0″N 13°10′26″E / 32.83333°N 13.17389°E / 32.83333; 13.17389

People at a Benghazi rally looking at the photos of victims of Abu Salim prison massacre (February 2011)

Abu Salim prison is a top security prison in Tripoli, Libya which is often described as "notorious" by human rights activists and other observers.[1][2][3] Amnesty International has called for an independent inquiry into deaths that occurred there in 1996,[4] an incident which Amnesty International and other news media refer to as the Abu Salim prison massacre.[5] Human Rights Watch believes that 1,270 prisoners were killed,[6][7] and calls it a "site of egregious human rights violations."[7] Western governments largely ignored this and no international inquiry was launched, due to "oil interests".[8] After the February 17 uprising, in April 2011, inmates of the prison escaped and engaged Gaddafi forces in armed combat at Bab al-Azizia. [citation needed]

YouTube videos

On January 24, 2010, Libya blocked access to YouTube after it featured videos of demonstrations in the Libyan city of Benghazi by families of detainees who were killed in Abu Salim prison in 1996, and videos of family members of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at parties. The blocking was criticized by Human Rights Watch.[9] It has also staged large demonstrations in the city of Al Bayda on April 5, 2009.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison to be emptied". daylife.com.
  2. ^ "Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison". geneva lunch.
  3. ^ Robertson, Nic; Cruickshank, Paul (November 28, 2009). "Jihadist death threatened Libyan peace deal". CNN.
  4. ^ "Investigation needed into prison deaths". Amnesty International.
  5. ^ "Libyan legal court celebrates Abu Salim prison massacre". Arabic News. June 24, 2005.
  6. ^ Site news Bilal bin Rabah (the city of Al Bayda, Libya), a meeting with the Libyan Minister of Justice .
  7. ^ a b "Libya: Free All Unjustly Detained Prisoners". Human Rights Watch.
  8. ^ "Libya revolution: Future scenarios and the West's role". BBC News. 25 February 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
  9. ^ "Watchdog urges Libya to stop blocking websites". Agence France-Presse. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
  10. ^ Libya Al-mostakbal News
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