TRIPOLI: Amnesty International alleged yesterday a Libyan soldier was tortured to death by members of his own unit, calling on authorities to investigate the case and break with such Gaddafi-era practices.
“Hussein Radwan Raheel, 37, who served with the Saiqa Forces, an elite army unit under the ministry of defence, was severely beaten and subjected to electric shocks,” Amnesty said quoting family members. It said the soldier “was tortured to death last week following 10 hours of interrogation by his own army unit” following the disappearance of a military vehicle from the unit’s Tripoli compound.
Egypt court acquits Gaddafi cousin
CAIRO: A Cairo court yesterday acquitted a cousin and former aide of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi of the attempted murder of two Egyptian police, judicial sources said. Ahmed Qaddaf Al Dam was detained in Cairo in March following a gunfight with Egyptian policemen in his apartment and was held despite Libyan demands for his extradition.
Yesterday, the Cairo court also acquitted Qaddaf Al Dam of possessing unlicensed weapons and resisting arrest, sources said, but they did not elaborate about his current status. Qaddaf Al Dam had denied the charges against him. On the day of his arrest he and his bodyguards allegedly fired a hail of bullets at masked policemen who stormed his apartment in an upscale Cairo neighbourhood, witnesses had said.aFP
