Gaddafi's Torture Centers Continue in Libya

Libyan revolutionaries captured and killed Muammar Gaddafi more than seven months ago, but the dictator's brutal tactics and antidemocratic ways live after him. Human-rights workers say that’s true not only within the high walls of the dictator's former Ain Zara torture center but at other jails and penitentiaries across the country. Abdul is among at least 20 Ain Zara inmates whose relatives accuse guards of subjecting detainees to severe and regular beatings with everything from fists to sticks, metal rods, and chains. Family members say some of the prisoners have been repeatedly beaten on their genitalia, a form of punishment that - in addition to being excruciatingly painful - could leave its victims infertile. Others, according to relatives, have been tortured with Taser-style electroshock weapons.