Libya's Lynching Liberators - Part 1 of 3
Channel: WBAIFiveOClockShadow
Date: 2012-01-29

Libya's Liberators' Lynchings

WBAI's "Five O'Clock Shadow" with Robert Knight 


Libya's race-based detention, torture and death epidemic is the subject this week of a Security Council hearing, a major Amnesty International report, and a Doctors without Borders boycott of the new regime.

In this "Shadow", a critical review of the new Libyan regime's abductions, torture, murder, and lack of human rights or due process -- especially for Afro-Libyans.

SPEAKERS:

Sanjeev Bery, Amnesty International USA, Amnesty International USA, Advocacy Director, Middle East and North Africa,

Dan Kovalik, human rights attorney and coauthor of "Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion"; and

Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, addressing the Security Council on racist Libyan detention and torture.

Contact: theshadow@wbai.org