3 BBC Journalists Report Being Tortured in Libya – NYTimes.com

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3 BBC Journalists Report Being Tortured in Libya

The correspondents say they were physically abused and psychologically terrorized for 21 hours after being detained trying to reach the scene of a battle 30 miles from the capital.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/world/africa/10bbc.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Goktay Koraltan, said: “I cannot describe how bad it was. Most of them were hooded and handcuffed really tightly, all with swollen hands and broken ribs. They were in agony. They were screaming.”