TRIPOLI - The Libyan police forcibly dispersed the protesters who last night held a sit-in against the government in Benghazi. About 38 people were injured. This was confirmed by the Director of the Al Jala, Abdelkarim Gubeaili, doubling a first official toll of 14 who spoke bruised, although none in worrying conditions.
According to a report in the newspaper Quryna, faithful to the Gaddafi regime, "a small group of young activists clashed with people trying to bring havoc to the city showing the streets 'al-Shajra', raising placards against the regime of the people." The clashes were not between police and protesters, but between "supporters of Gaddafi and this group of provocateurs who then blocked the way Jamal Abdel Naser setting fire to tires.
Gaddafi's supporters marched showing photos of the colonel and met with the protesters returning from the sit-in held in front of police headquarters to obtain the release of the activist arrested yesterday. " The situation remains tense. According to reports from Libya, the Libyan opposition website al-Mustaqbal, the Libyan police have arrested two reporters this morning in Benghazi, Idris and Mohammed al-Masmari Ashim.
The two had spoken on the night of live telephone on some Arab satellite broadcasters to provide news about the ongoing protests in the city. Al-Masmari was arrested shortly after talking on the phone with the Arabic edition of the BBC. Al-Jazeera has also announced that the Libyan police stopped his crew live in the city to monitor the protest.
Since last night there were difficulties in telephone and Internet in the country. Some districts of Benghazi were left without electricity. The protests of the previous days. Yesterday the families of inmates killed in 1996 in a shootout in the prison of Abu Slim, in Tripoli, had gathered outside a police station in Benghazi to demand the release of their coordinator, the lawyer Fethi Tarbela.
According to Human Rights Watch, at least 1,200 prisoners were killed by the police, in circumstances still unclear. For years, the families, most of which originated in Benghazi, never stop seeking justice. Arrested for reasons as yet unspecified, Tarbela was issued under pressure from families, says the newspaper Quryna close to Gaddafi's son, Seif al-Islam.
However, after the issue of legal, family members remained in place and other people joined them, thus pushing the police to disperse them by force. The demonstrators chanted slogans against the regime, "Benghazi wake up, is the day we expect," "The blood of martyrs was not shed in vain," or "the people want to put an end to corruption." Depending on the version provided by the Libyan newspaper, "the police did not emerge until later, after protesters armed with knives, they launched an extensive stone-throwing against the police and attacked supporters of Gaddafi." The newspaper denies that the police have used tear gas to separate the two groups.
Hundreds of supporters of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi today continue to show in several cities, including Sirte, Tripoli and Sabha. The European appeal: "No to violence". The High Representative for EU foreign policy Catherine Ashton has appealed to the Libyan authorities because heed "to the demands of the demonstrators and the voices of civil society." Through his spokesman, Maja Kocijancic, Ashton has officially asked the Libyan authorities to "allow free expression" of views and expressions and that "all violence be avoided." Government will release 110 Islamist activists.
According to reveal an association for Human Rights today released 110 prisoners will be members of an outlawed Islamic group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. These are the last members of the group, which last year abjured violence, to be still in prison, said Mohamed Ternish, president of the Libyan human rights.
The timing of this new release, which also suggests a gesture intended to placate the population, which convened a February 17 protest in the wake of those in Egypt and Tunisia. Prince Adris: "Gaddafi go along with the people." "Libya is a rich country, which ironically is confronted with extreme poverty," said Prince Idris Al Senussi.
"There is unemployment and rampant corruption, a health collapse. Gaddafi, who is undoubtedly an intelligent leader, must realize that this situation can not last long, that even if he manages to suppress the demonstration on 17, and others will follow others, such as Cairo and Tunis, where the streets are empty after the fall of the regime.
The anger of young Libyans, according to al-Senussi, who now lives between Rome and Washington, is justified by the fact that in Libya there is no constitution, no one knows what is there after Gaddafi, who will take his place in According to what rules will be handled the transfer of power.
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According to a report in the newspaper Quryna, faithful to the Gaddafi regime, "a small group of young activists clashed with people trying to bring havoc to the city showing the streets 'al-Shajra', raising placards against the regime of the people." The clashes were not between police and protesters, but between "supporters of Gaddafi and this group of provocateurs who then blocked the way Jamal Abdel Naser setting fire to tires.
Gaddafi's supporters marched showing photos of the colonel and met with the protesters returning from the sit-in held in front of police headquarters to obtain the release of the activist arrested yesterday. " The situation remains tense. According to reports from Libya, the Libyan opposition website al-Mustaqbal, the Libyan police have arrested two reporters this morning in Benghazi, Idris and Mohammed al-Masmari Ashim.
The two had spoken on the night of live telephone on some Arab satellite broadcasters to provide news about the ongoing protests in the city. Al-Masmari was arrested shortly after talking on the phone with the Arabic edition of the BBC. Al-Jazeera has also announced that the Libyan police stopped his crew live in the city to monitor the protest.
Since last night there were difficulties in telephone and Internet in the country. Some districts of Benghazi were left without electricity. The protests of the previous days. Yesterday the families of inmates killed in 1996 in a shootout in the prison of Abu Slim, in Tripoli, had gathered outside a police station in Benghazi to demand the release of their coordinator, the lawyer Fethi Tarbela.
According to Human Rights Watch, at least 1,200 prisoners were killed by the police, in circumstances still unclear. For years, the families, most of which originated in Benghazi, never stop seeking justice. Arrested for reasons as yet unspecified, Tarbela was issued under pressure from families, says the newspaper Quryna close to Gaddafi's son, Seif al-Islam.
However, after the issue of legal, family members remained in place and other people joined them, thus pushing the police to disperse them by force. The demonstrators chanted slogans against the regime, "Benghazi wake up, is the day we expect," "The blood of martyrs was not shed in vain," or "the people want to put an end to corruption." Depending on the version provided by the Libyan newspaper, "the police did not emerge until later, after protesters armed with knives, they launched an extensive stone-throwing against the police and attacked supporters of Gaddafi." The newspaper denies that the police have used tear gas to separate the two groups.
Hundreds of supporters of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi today continue to show in several cities, including Sirte, Tripoli and Sabha. The European appeal: "No to violence". The High Representative for EU foreign policy Catherine Ashton has appealed to the Libyan authorities because heed "to the demands of the demonstrators and the voices of civil society." Through his spokesman, Maja Kocijancic, Ashton has officially asked the Libyan authorities to "allow free expression" of views and expressions and that "all violence be avoided." Government will release 110 Islamist activists.
According to reveal an association for Human Rights today released 110 prisoners will be members of an outlawed Islamic group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. These are the last members of the group, which last year abjured violence, to be still in prison, said Mohamed Ternish, president of the Libyan human rights.
The timing of this new release, which also suggests a gesture intended to placate the population, which convened a February 17 protest in the wake of those in Egypt and Tunisia. Prince Adris: "Gaddafi go along with the people." "Libya is a rich country, which ironically is confronted with extreme poverty," said Prince Idris Al Senussi.
"There is unemployment and rampant corruption, a health collapse. Gaddafi, who is undoubtedly an intelligent leader, must realize that this situation can not last long, that even if he manages to suppress the demonstration on 17, and others will follow others, such as Cairo and Tunis, where the streets are empty after the fall of the regime.
The anger of young Libyans, according to al-Senussi, who now lives between Rome and Washington, is justified by the fact that in Libya there is no constitution, no one knows what is there after Gaddafi, who will take his place in According to what rules will be handled the transfer of power.
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