The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR has called for an independent investigation into the discovery of mass graves at detention centres in Libyas capital, Tripoli.
The OHCHR says it was shocked by gross human rights violations uncovered at official and unofficial detention facilities run by the Stability Support Apparatus, a security institution.
It was established to uphold the rule of law and falls under the Presidential Council that came to power in 2021 with the Government of National Unity of Abdulhamid Dbeibah through a United Nations UN-backed process.
However, Libya, a major oil producer in the Mediterranean, has known little law and order since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi and eventually divided the country between warring eastern and western factions.
The OHCHR says the discovery of dozens of bodies and suspected instruments of torture and abuse confirmed longstanding findings by the UN that human rights violations were committed at such sites.
