Human Rights Watch publish documents alleging US cooperated with Libya on torture

September 8, 2012



The human rights group has published a 154-page document accusing the  of cooperating with  under the rule of, in the interrogation and  of members of the armed group,  (LIFG), according to a report in the.

The report alleges that the United States and Libya, together with governments from Africa, Asia, and Europe such as the, collaborated in detaining former members of LIFG living outside Libya then deporting them back to Libya where they were allegedly tortured. According to the report, some of those detained where abused even before the were returned to Libya such as those held in bases  in. News reports have revealed that the abuse may have occurred between April 2003 and April 2005.

Upon the release of the document, Human Rights Watch has stated that their key source of information came from a pile of abandoned documents found on September 3, 2011 from the offices of former Libyan intelligence chief. They also said that they have interviewed 14 former detainees who allege that they were subjected to abuses ranging from, , , , and.