| Proof that sometimes HRW is useful. |
CAIRO â A US-based human rights group demanded Libya yesterday to release a journalist and Internet writer detained since January or put him on trial. Abd Al Raziq Al Mansouri, 52, was arrested in Tobruk after writing some 50 articles and commentaries for a British web site during the past year critical of Libyan society and the government, Human Rights Watch said in a statement.
âLibyaâs internal security force has detained Al Mansouri since last January in an apparent effort to silence a writer with critical views,â the group said in its statement. âThe Libyan government should release Al Mansouri and drop the charges against him or grant him a prompt and fair trial,â HRW added.
Libyan authorities, according to HRW, claim he was detained for possessing a gun. Libyan officials were not immediately able to be reached for comment.
The UK web site, Al Mansouri wrote for recently, reported that the Libyan writer broke his pelvis after falling from his prison bed and claimed he had not received appropriate medical care.
| Bed must have been at what we docs call "orthopedic height". Lucky for him it wasn't at "neurosurgical height". |
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