USA: ‘I’m not sure what they’re basing that on’: Human rights principles sidelined as Libyan man seized in Tripoli remains incommunicado

Libyan national Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, also known as Abu Anas al-Libi, remains in incommunicado detention after being seized by US Special Forces in Libya on 5 October 2013 and removed from the country. He is reportedly being held on a US navy vessel, the USS San Antonio, which was in the Mediterranean at the time of the abduction. However, on 9 October, the Department of State again refused to confirm where he was being held.

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