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Libya’s New Leaders Acknowledge Mistreatment Of Prisoners | Libya’s new leaders, responding to a U.N. report implicating them in the torture and and ill treatment of prisoners, acknowledged that prisoners held by revolutionary forces had been mistreated. Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur told a news conference, “Are there illegal detentions in Libya? I am afraid there are.” The report found that as many as 7,000 people, many of them sub-Saharan Africans suspected of aiding Muammar Qaddafi, are still held by revolutionaries. Interior Minister Fawzy Abdul-Ali acknowledged the report’s findings but told the Associated Press, “We are trying our best to establish a legitimate system that is authorized to make arrests, detain and interrogate people. We are trying to minimize the possibilities of [human rights] violations taking place.”