What the records say
- When
- 28 Jun 1996 – 29 Jun 1996
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 32.83° N, 13.17° E
- Description
- massacre at Abu Salim Prison, Tripoli, Libya
Abu Salim prison
Prison in Libya
Abu Salim prison is a maximum security prison in Tripoli, Libya. The prison was notorious during the rule of Muammar Gaddafi for alleged mistreatment and human rights abuses, including a massacre in 1996 in which Human Rights Watch estimated that 1,270 prisoners were killed.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “при подавлении бунта в тюрьме Абу-Салим (Ливия) убито около 1200 заключённых”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page