Three BBC reporters were detained on Monday and held for 21 hours. One of the reporters, Goktay Koraltan, told the BBC that their experience was nothing compared to other prisoners in the detention center. “I can’t describe how bad it was,” he said, “they were, most of them were hooded and handcuffed really tightly, all swollen hands, broken ribs, they were in agony, they were screaming. There was a big operation going on there.” The BBC said in a statement that it strongly condemned the abusive treatment of its journalists. For more on reporting from Libya is the BBC’s Wyre Davies.
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