Libyan Political Prisoners Start Strike
More than 130 Libyan political prisoners, mostly members of the banned opposition Muslim Brotherhood group, have started a hunger strike in a Tripoli prison, saying the government broke its promise to release them, a human rights group said Tuesday. Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, said last year that the 131 prisoners would be freed by September 2004, but the promise was never kept, said Jouma Umami, secretary of the Human Right Solidarity, a Libyan group that operates in Geneva. Full Story