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Libia: l’incubo di un ricercatore italiano finito nelle carceri di Gheddafi senza accuse precise

www.blitzquotidiano.it, February 24, 2011

in prison in Libya without any real accusation: that is what has happened to an Italian researcher from the University of London, told the daily act. "When you spend three weeks in jail in Libya come to mind many things. Look at photos of Berlusconi kissing Gaddafi in Tripoli and you wonder if it is you have to be sacrificed on the altar of economic interests. Think of all the agreements between Italy and Libya, and see that talk about human rights then you are systematically denied. "
The man, who asked to remain anonymous, was arrested in Tripoli on December 4 last year. It is able to return to Italy on Christmas Eve after having spent twenty days in Libyan prisons "without trial or accusation. But above all, without which none of the Italian Embassy or Consulate you did live. Her crime, writes the Fact, "I met people do not like the procedure: two boys of the Berber minority, they also arrested by the Libyan services December 16 and, according to the complaint Amnesty International, torture in prison. The brothers and Mazigh Maghris Bouzahar were released Sunday. "
The researcher was over to Libya to study a Berber dialect being spoken in small communities do extinction of Augila. There she meets one of the twins Bouzahar, activists dedicated to the promotion of Berber culture and members of the World Amazigh Congress.
Back in Tripoli on December 4, was stopped at the airport. Is returned to the hotel, and there, in his laptop, found the documents on the Berber language. All I can do is warn the Italian consulate, which promises to make inquiries. But then the student does not receive any news, excluded from all communication with the outside world for twenty days.
"For hours I was asked to explain each day where I was, who I had met and what I did," said Fact. Hours of questioning, the signing of the minutes in Arabic without translation. Detained man collects the testimonies of those who have suffered torture and beatings by security forces.
After five days the man was transferred to solitary confinement. Finally, someone begins to believe that this man was only a researcher with an academic project and science. On 22 December he was taken to a hotel. At the end of an academic commission Libyan money to his account, and he can finally return to Italy.
There are still some questions, points out: "Why in the twenty days no Italian authorities managed to get in touch with an Italian citizen detained without charge in a Libyan jail? What happened to the vaunted special relationship? And if it is true that the Consulate has asked several times in Tripoli because the information has been given and what formal steps have been made to them? And because the man was asked to disclose on the event? "
" For two months, says the researcher, a bit 'selfish, I thought it was right not to disturb the manipulator and that perhaps would not have even helped my research projects. Then came the events and the dead. The silence began to weigh. And when my friends Libyans have been released, it's time to tell. "