Shafaqna English– The United Nations rights office called for a probe into mass graves at detention centres in Libya’s capital Tripoli.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said it was “shocked” by gross human rights violations uncovered at official and unofficial detention facilities run by the Stability Support Apparatus, a security institution.
It was established to uphold the rule of law and falls under the Presidential Council that came to power in 2021 with the Government of National Unity of Abdulhamid Dbeibah through a UN-backed process.
The OHCHR said the discovery of dozens of bodies and suspected instruments of torture and abuse confirmed longstanding findings by the UN that human rights violations were committed at such sites.
“We call on the Libyan authorities to conduct independent, impartial and transparent investigations into these discoveries,” OHCHR said in a statement. It urged the authorities to preserve evidence and grant Libya’s forensic teams, as well as the United Nations, full access to the sites.
Source:The New Arab