Tripoli massacre: entombed in tiny cells, all they could hear was the screaming - Telegraph

Tripoli massacre: entombed in tiny cells, all they could hear was the screaming

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We'd been looking around the newly-liberated prison, which for all its fearsome reputation struck me as fairly all right. The large communal cells had carpets, fans, kitchens, showers and even power points. The prison, scene of a notorious massacre in 1996, was later turned into a showplace for visiting foreigners. 

But that was not where Gaddafi's police state did its real business. They took the political prisoners somewhere else, somewhere much harder to find. 

A few blocks away, on Traffic Light Street, there was a gate in a high-walled compound. Even when it was open, all you could see was blue corrugated-iron garages, a vehicle transport store. But out of sight of the road, behind the garages and another wall, was a concrete building: Gaddafi's torture chamber. 

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