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Clashes
in Libya as protesters prepare for 'Day of Anger'
Thursday February 17, 2011 09:13:42 AM,
DPA
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Cairo/Tripoli: At least 38 people were injured when
police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators in the Libyan city
of Benghazi overnight, media reports said Wednesday.
Quryna newspaper quoted a medical source as saying that all the
injured were treated in hospital, but later released.
The newspaper, which referred to the protesters as "saboteurs" in
earlier reports, is owned by Saif al-Islam, son of Libyan leader
Moamer Gaddafi.
Clashes erupted ahead of what activists called a "Day of Anger"
Thursday, as they sought to end Gaddafi's 41-year-old rule,
following revolts in neighbouring Egypt and Tunisia.
"Pressure from the street is big. In Libya, the same will happen
like in Tunisia and Egypt," said Abdulhamid Salim al-Haasi, a
spokesman for the London-based National Conference of the Libyan
Opposition (NCLO).
He urged young Libyans to demonstrate "peacefully" and not to seek
direct confrontation with the state powers.
Anti-Gaddafi demonstrators hurled stones at police, who responded
with water cannon, the online newspaper Libya al-Youm reported.
A video posted on the internet showed protesters tearing up
posters of the Libyan leader. Another showed people chanting "the
regime is barbaric, we are not" and "enough".
The European Union urged Libyan authorities to allow
anti-government protesters to demonstrate and take their demands
seriously.
Protesters in Benghazi were angered by the arrest of activist and
lawyer Fathi Turbil, who was reportedly freed after the protest.
Turbil represents families of prisoners killed in Tripoli's Abu
Salim jail, where more than 1,000 prisoners died in 1996. Families
of the victims have been demanding that the culprits be punished.
Government sources said that 110 prisoners detained in Abu Salim
prison were to be released Wednesday.
State-owned al-Jamahirya TV, meanwhile, showed hundreds of Libyans
demonstrating nationwide in support of the government.
"The protesters were expressing their eternal adhesion to their
leader," the channel said, showing pictures of them carrying
Gaddafi portraits and green banners, as well as criticizing the
television network Al Jazeera.
"Tell Al Jazeera we want no one else but our leader," chanted
Gaddafi supporters in the cities of Tripoli and Sirte.
The demonstration follows political unrest in Egypt, Yemen and
Algeria which has seen anti-government protesters calling for more
employment opportunities, reform and democracy.
The demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt ultimately toppled the
presidents in both countries.
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