The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) figure at 46 dead in the last 72 hours of clashes between protesters and Libyan security forces. AI, citing sources in al-Jala hospital in Benghazi, Libya's second city and main focus of protests in recent days, strongly emphasizes that most people coming to the center show bullet wounds.
Done this by denouncing the regime's violent repression of Muammar Gaddafi. According to data obtained by this organization, 28 of the 46 people killed fell yesterday during demonstrations in Benghazi during the protest that took to the streets to thousands of Libyans. The regime has not offered an official figure of casualties.
This figure would increase slightly the balance now also offered by Al Jazeera television -24 killed during the Day of Wrath held yesterday, and was endorsed by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The fiercest clashes so far occurred in towns in the area east of the country, traditionally less sympathetic to Gaddafi.
Among them, Benghazi, Al Baida Zenten, Derna and Ajdabiya. Libyan security forces have fought and are trying to regain control of Al Baida, reports and other cities in the area. The Libyan media, newspapers as Quryna and the AEO, the next two to Seif Islam Gaddafi's son, not far from these figures on their balance sheets on the clashes yesterday.
The first states that the use of live fire has killed 14 people in Benghazi. The second says that in this city are a score of deaths, while protests have left seven victims Derna, the total would be even higher than confirmed by HRW. The AEO also ensures that government groups have been arrested and two policemen have been posted in Al Baida.
Counterattack in Al Baida "a slaughter took place here last night" said one opposition activist to the agency from Al Baida. The group Solidarity for Human Rights and the Libyan Committee for Truth and Justice initially reported that al-Baida was taken by the demonstrators, but later clarified that government forces were fighting back.
A little farther east, in Derna, two hundred people have taken a construction site run by Koreans, as reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. In addition, Ashour Shamis, a Libyan journalist based in London, has reported that protesters have been assaulted prison Kuwafiyah (Benghazi) and dozens prisoners have been released.
In the African country's second city and the epicenter, so far, of the revolt, Benghazi, the night was particularly tough. "There were thousands of people, including soldiers. I heard shots and saw a person collapsing as a result of gunfire," he told a neighbor to the agency. This morning, hundreds of soldiers have been deployed in the city to thwart any attempt at revolt.
Defense of human rights Human Rights Watch has urged the authorities to abandon the use of force against peaceful demonstrators and to open an investigation to clarify the latest deaths. "The Libyans did not have to risk their lives to defend their rights as human beings," said the director of HRW's Middle East, Sarah Leah Whitson, the time has claimed that "these attacks highlight the brutality of Muammar Gaddafi when facing internal dissent.
" The day is still tense, but for now, there are reports that the situation has reached critical levels last night. Today, for example, there have been "small protests" in Tripoli, as Libya's Youth Movement, one of the promoters of groups mobilizing against Gaddafi. Yesterday the capital was kept out of the protests.
The revolutionary committees, which represent the backbone of the Libyan power, have threatened this morning in the newspaper Al Akhdar Azahf the "factions" who demonstrate against the regime with a response "explosive" and "violent." "The power of the people and the masses, the revolution and its leader (Muammar Qadhafi) are red lines and anyone who tries to overcome them or approach them play with fire and you run the risk of suicide," he warned.
Meanwhile, state television will continue to ignore the demonstrations and, instead, are broadcast marches Gaddafi loyalists like this morning in Benghazi, flying portraits of the leader and shouting slogans in favor of him. 
Done this by denouncing the regime's violent repression of Muammar Gaddafi. According to data obtained by this organization, 28 of the 46 people killed fell yesterday during demonstrations in Benghazi during the protest that took to the streets to thousands of Libyans. The regime has not offered an official figure of casualties.
This figure would increase slightly the balance now also offered by Al Jazeera television -24 killed during the Day of Wrath held yesterday, and was endorsed by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The fiercest clashes so far occurred in towns in the area east of the country, traditionally less sympathetic to Gaddafi.
Among them, Benghazi, Al Baida Zenten, Derna and Ajdabiya. Libyan security forces have fought and are trying to regain control of Al Baida, reports and other cities in the area. The Libyan media, newspapers as Quryna and the AEO, the next two to Seif Islam Gaddafi's son, not far from these figures on their balance sheets on the clashes yesterday.
The first states that the use of live fire has killed 14 people in Benghazi. The second says that in this city are a score of deaths, while protests have left seven victims Derna, the total would be even higher than confirmed by HRW. The AEO also ensures that government groups have been arrested and two policemen have been posted in Al Baida.
Counterattack in Al Baida "a slaughter took place here last night" said one opposition activist to the agency from Al Baida. The group Solidarity for Human Rights and the Libyan Committee for Truth and Justice initially reported that al-Baida was taken by the demonstrators, but later clarified that government forces were fighting back.
A little farther east, in Derna, two hundred people have taken a construction site run by Koreans, as reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. In addition, Ashour Shamis, a Libyan journalist based in London, has reported that protesters have been assaulted prison Kuwafiyah (Benghazi) and dozens prisoners have been released.
In the African country's second city and the epicenter, so far, of the revolt, Benghazi, the night was particularly tough. "There were thousands of people, including soldiers. I heard shots and saw a person collapsing as a result of gunfire," he told a neighbor to the agency. This morning, hundreds of soldiers have been deployed in the city to thwart any attempt at revolt.
Defense of human rights Human Rights Watch has urged the authorities to abandon the use of force against peaceful demonstrators and to open an investigation to clarify the latest deaths. "The Libyans did not have to risk their lives to defend their rights as human beings," said the director of HRW's Middle East, Sarah Leah Whitson, the time has claimed that "these attacks highlight the brutality of Muammar Gaddafi when facing internal dissent.
" The day is still tense, but for now, there are reports that the situation has reached critical levels last night. Today, for example, there have been "small protests" in Tripoli, as Libya's Youth Movement, one of the promoters of groups mobilizing against Gaddafi. Yesterday the capital was kept out of the protests.
The revolutionary committees, which represent the backbone of the Libyan power, have threatened this morning in the newspaper Al Akhdar Azahf the "factions" who demonstrate against the regime with a response "explosive" and "violent." "The power of the people and the masses, the revolution and its leader (Muammar Qadhafi) are red lines and anyone who tries to overcome them or approach them play with fire and you run the risk of suicide," he warned.
Meanwhile, state television will continue to ignore the demonstrations and, instead, are broadcast marches Gaddafi loyalists like this morning in Benghazi, flying portraits of the leader and shouting slogans in favor of him.
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