00:00Human rights watchers accused the military authorities in eastern Libya of executing
00:05at least 31 people since late August.
00:08It says these are the first known executions in the country since 2010 and followed what
00:12it described as grossly unfair military trials.
00:16In addition, the rights group says that at least 50 other people held at Ghanadi military
00:20prison are at risk of execution at any moment by the Libyan Arab armed forces.
00:25It says the army, led by General Khalifa Haftar, have been putting them to death after secret
00:30trials built on confessions allegedly extracted through torture.
00:35Many of the men were arrested in the cities of Derna and Benghazi during the armed conflict
00:39between Haftar's forces and rival armed groups between 2014 and 2018.
00:45Human rights watchers called on the army to immediately halt executions and impose a moratorium
00:50on the death penalty.
00:51Libya has been beset by violence and instability since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011
00:57and is run by two governments, an internationally recognized one in Tripoli and the rival administration
01:03in the east backed by Haftar.
