Abu Salim prison

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People at a Benghazi rally looking at the photos of victims of Abu Salim prison massacre (February 2011)

Abu Salim prison (Arabic: سجن أبو سليم) is a maximum security prison in Tripoli, Libya. The prison was notorious during the rule of Muammar Gaddafi for alleged mistreatment and human rights abuses, including a massacre in 1996 in which Human Rights Watch estimated that 1,270 prisoners were killed.[1][2][3]

In 2011, when the National Transitional Council invited investigators from CNN and other organizations, it found only what appeared to be animal bones at that site and announced further investigations.[4][5]

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  2. ^ "Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison". geneva lunch. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-04-17.
  3. ^ Robertson, Nic; Cruickshank, Paul (23 November 2009). "Jihadist death threatened Libyan peace deal". CNN. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  4. ^ Kuzmarov, J.; Ford, G. (2019). Obama's Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State. Clarity Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-949762-01-3.
  5. ^ "Libya hedges mass grave claim". CNN. 26 September 2011.