In news from Libya, Amnesty International is warning armed militias are committing widespread human rights abuses without punishment. In a new report, Amnesty says the Libyan government has turned a blind eye to the militias, which mostly target those believed to be loyalists of the slain leader Muammar Gaddafi. The report’s co-author, Amnesty’s Carsten Jürgensen, called for the militias to be reined in.

Carsten Jürgensen: “The problem is that these militias are de facto above the law. They are not being held accountable for what they are doing, and the authorities not dare to do so. We are calling on the authorities to make first sure that those detention centers, which are existing throughout the country and where people continue to be tortured and abused, that these detention centers are closed. And then they have to send a clear message to these militias by starting to prosecute those perpetrators of crimes, particularly in cases where people have died.”