Misrata Mayor Mohammed Eshtewi has appointed a committee to look into the cases both of prisoners who have already spent a period of time incarcerated and of those against whom no clear evidence of guilt has been shown. The aim in to get them released as soon as possible.
The 28-member committee will also investigate the status of prisons.
The existence of militia-run prisons in Libya has come in for strong criticism from human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
organizations, with threats that those involved could be referred to the
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
. The Draft peace plan issued by UN Special Envoy Bernardino Leon also calls for an end to such prisons. Article 28 specifically commits Libya "to ensure that the power to hold detainees and prisoners is exclusive to the competent judicial authorities and in officially recognised facilities".
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
a court in Misrata has sentenced, in absentia, Ahmed Al-Abdali death for incitement to kill protesters in Misrata during the revolution and providing weapons for the task to Qadaffy supporters. Life sentences for using violence against protestors were also handed to Abu Ajila Salem Tibar, Khaled Najeh, Rabih Eshtewi, Ali Abdullah Al-Hais, Abubaker Abdullah Al-Hais and Jadallah Abdulaziz.