Libyan Gathering Flares Into Antiregime Protest

Source: WSJ

A small gathering of protesters demanding the release of a human-rights lawyer flared into a violent antiregime demonstration in the Libyan city of Benghazi late Tuesday, according to local press reports and a human-rights group monitoring the event.

Tawfiq Alghazwani, a human-rights activist now based in Dublin, said people on Tuesday gathered in front of the town's police station to demand the release of a human-rights lawyer arrested the day before. The demonstrators were mostly relatives of victims of an alleged massacre of 1,200 political prisoners at the Abu Sleem prison in the capital Tripoli in 1996, he said.

As the gathering moved to the center of town, it was joined by local youth, demanding the end of the regime of longtime leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, according to local media and Mr. Alghazwani. Police and a group of up to 500 pro-government supporters massed and dispersed the crowd violently, said Mr. Alghazwani, who is also head of the National Congress of Libyan Opposition, citing eyewitnesses.

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