BBC Journalists Beaten, Subject to Mock Executions by Libyan Thugs
- Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:45am by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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Grim, grim news from Libya this morning: members of a BBC news team, pictured below, were detained by Libyan security forces, then beaten, hooded, and subject to mock executions. This “could amount to torture” according to the UN Human Rights Commissioner, Navi Pillay.
Here’s the BBC’s report:
Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi’s security forces detained and beat up a BBC news team who were trying to reach the strife-torn western city of Zawiya.
Members of the three-man team were beaten with fists, knees and rifles, hooded and subjected to mock executions by Libyan troops and secret police.
The three were detained on Monday and held for 21 hours, but have now flown out of Libya.
The UN Human Rights Commissioner says their treatment may amount to torture.
The detained BBC journalists, in an interview following their release, note that the Arab prisoners were far worse off than they themselves were. BBC cameraman Goktay Koraltan–on the left above–said in that interview, “I can’t describe how bad [sic] was it–most of them [the Arab rebels] were hooded and handcuffed really tightly, all swollen hands, broken ribs. They were in agony, screaming.”
Watch the chilling testimony of Koraltan and BBC reporter Feras Killani below:
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Comments (34)
Aimsmallshootsmall
Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:42amAccording to Hillary the BBC is not a news agency. So they must have been spies or something. Probably the same guys who smuggle evil guns to mexico. I bet they were driving evil suv’s ,then again if they are liberals , who gives a dead rats ass. These people still wipe their ass with two fingers and some of you find their behavior bothersome. WOW WTFUP
Report Post »Ssenkrad
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 3:13pmAnimals.
Report Post »Dick Blitskreig
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:56pmGet some.
Report Post »floydjr
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:40pmWho cares!!!
Report Post »red_white_blue2
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:01pmBut let’s wait Hillary. We don’t want to stand up and defend innocent people from being slaughtered unless we have the backing of the Socialist, I mean Left Leaning UN…now do we! We might anger someone that is slated to give you a big donation!. God, the left makes me sick!!
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 11:49amALL journalists need to leave these barbaric countries. They will not make a change in these animals.
Report Post »King_friedrich
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 11:18amWho in their right mind would be in these crap holes, especially now!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:43amYou are right Dusty. The whole population of Libya isn’t worth the life of one U.S. serviceman. Let the Egyptians create a no fly zone. They have a modern air force (thanks to the U.S.). The muslim world rails against U.S. intervention in middle east affairs and then begs us to help when times are tough.
Report Post »ldpeters
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:31amInteresting to note in broad perspective: Libya is totally unimportant in the measurement of the whole. The idea of sending journalists into a pitiful “non-story” and then risking their lives in pursuit of it is insane. When is Africa going to stand up and police itself?
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:28amThe Brits just sent in special forces and a negotiator to help the jihadists. What, did they think Gaddafi’s forces were just gonna say “Oh Cool. BBC!”
Idiots. You already choose your side.
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:22amDude .. grow a set…
Report Post »It’s not like he had his arse whupped at a taco shop in LA…
Obama Bin Lying
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:16amThe religion of peace and tolerance hard at work.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:07amREPORTERS!!!!!! FLASH NEWS REPORT!!!! Your living in the real world and not the world you wish it would be.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:01amAnd he went over there thinking” I’ll be safe, I’m from Britain, we love the muzies over there. We‘ve let them take over our country so I’ll be OK.” Dumb ass! Nice thing to do to your family. Have fun idiot.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:00amLet Al Jazeera get the news from these evil countries.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:56amExactly, they are the only true news team just ask Hillary. Yeah, right.
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:00amMust be tea party plants.
Report Post »Mr Spock
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:12amHilarious. Most of us normal people would pay tribute to the guts of these guys in trying to report the truth and putting their lives on the line to do their job. Thank God there are still people out there willing to fight to find the truth.
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:22am@Mr Spock
Report Post »Please attempt to explain truth to anything Islamic?
Mr Spock
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:30am@RLTW I mean the truth about what’s happening on the ground – and that applies to any war zone.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:57amI agree…. I’m so sick of their animalization of Humanity. I’m sick of our supporting these dopes… All we ever had to do was say: We’re buying OIL…our Security is here to keep you animals from destroying our investment in oil fields… stay on your side of the fence and accept our money. Instead we prop up these uber animals and they think they did it themselves, become these demonic dictators and end up screwing us… FIRST clean out the STATE DEPT. beginning with the very inept Hillary Clinton…most inept ever…. WE NEED GUTS in the WH, not PC weaklings. WE NEED SARAH PALIN.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:56amThat bunch of animals…… I don’t understand why someone send somebody in there to assinate that criminal.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:55amRemember Islam is the “religion” of peace.
Report Post »Bigliardi
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:52amReporters know what they are getting into when they rush headlong into a place of conflict…Not good behavior on the part of the Libyans, but was to be expected…..
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:52amMeanwhile, Barack votes ‘“PRESENT”
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 10:37amSad and true. (what a winner of a president) OYE!!!
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 11:32amAre these guys who did this the “radical muslims” or the “moderate muslims”? Is there even a difference? If you ever thought that there was, just look at all the garbage going on across the middle east. When the chains of oppression are taken off, they all act the same way….with hatred and violence.
Report Post »hightide
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:52amI agree. Let them fight it out amongst themselves. We do not need to be there.
Report Post »Navy Gentleman
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:52am“could amount to torture”
That sounds like a UN assessment of the situation all right.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:51amThank God they made it out alive! If you don’t belong there, you have had fair warning to get the heck out. It’s like an animal with the taste of blood, they are out of control.
Report Post »Navy Gentleman
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 9:50am“could amount to torture”
They are good at understatements.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:19pmSo when one of the peaceful muslims cuts a prisioners head off, might that also be torture by UN standards? It really does not matter who wins these battles. They will end up with a murdurer in chief as their leader.
Report Post »arizonaastro628
Posted on March 10, 2011 at 1:43pmCorrection: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
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