Doctors refuse to aid Libyan ‘torture’

Reuters | Jan 26, 2012

TRIPOLI — Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors Without Borders) has halted its work in detention centers in the Libyan city of Misrata because it said its medical staff were being asked to patch up detainees mid-way through torture sessions so they could go back for more abuse.

Rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns about torture being used against people, many of them sub-Saharan Africans, suspected of having fought for Muammar Gaddafi’s forces during Libya’s nine-month civil war.

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