Libya releases 65 political prisoners
Libya, Politics, 8/30/2002

Gaddafi International Foundation for Charitable Associations for charity works announced on Thursday the release of "65 prisoners of opinion" arrested during the 1980s in the country.

The spokesman for the organization which is headed by Seif al-Islam, son of the Libyan leader Muammar al Qathafi said that those prisoners belong to "secular" trends and expressed their redemption. He explained that some of the prisoners are communists and others are defenders for party pluralism, but he did not clarify their identities.

The spokesman continued that by releasing this group, "Only a certain and limited groups are in the Libyan prisons, as their freedom constitutes a danger on the society," in remarks to an Islamic extremist group called al-Jama'a al-Libeyah al-Muqatila ( the Libyan fighting group).

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