Meanwhile in Libya

Libya's former ambassador to France under Muammar Gaddafi has died less than 24 hours after being detained by an armed group in Tripoli, a rights organisation has said.

Omar Brebesh, who served in the Paris embassy as cultural attache from 2004 to 2008, and then as acting ambassador, was detained on January 19 and appears to have died from torture, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday.

A preliminary autopsy report obtained by the organisation, and photographs provided by Brebesh's family, showed that the cause of death was "multiple bodily injuries and fractured ribs" and that his body was marked by welts, cuts and the apparent removal of toenails.

On January 19, Brebesh turned himself in to the al-Shohada Ashura, or Ashura Martyrs, after being called for questioning by the militia's commander, Khalid al-Blehzi, Brebesh's son Ziad said.

  alJazeera

Well, that was a mistake. I don’t know what an ambassador might have done in his service to the Qadafi regime, but I do know that the brutes with the upper hand now are hideously inhuman, and where are our Congressional Champions of Human Rights who were so concerned about Qadafi’s actions now?

The report into Brebesh's apparent torture and killing comes days after Doctors Without Borders announced it was suspending its work in Misrata detention centres because militias there were torturing detainees while asking the doctors for medical assistance.

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Brebesh's death was one of the highest profile killings of a former government official since rebels captured and killed Gaddafi, the ousted longtime leader, in late October.

Others have been arrested or fled the country: Gaddafi son Saadi is in Niger, while his more prominent scion, Saif, was captured and is being held by militias in Zintan who have refused to give him up to the interim National Transitional Council (NTC).

Maybe they could periodically send the NTC body parts.

According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Libya has about 8,500 detainees in roughly 60 facilities, few of which come under centralised NTC control.

And I’m not at all convinced they’d be in any better shape if they were.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.