A 16-year old boy (declined to give his name or show his face out of fear of retribution) shows scars on his body from a rebel's rocket propelled grenade during the fighting in Dafniya on April 25th, 2011. He was under rebel control in a makeshift prison in Misrata.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres) has suspended its operations in detention centers in the Libyan city of Misrata because detainees are being tortured and denied urgent medical care, the international medical humanitarian organization said in a statement Thusday.

MSF has been operating in Misrata detention centers since August of last year, and the organization reports that there have been repeated cases of detainees brought in for medical care who had signs of being tortured. The torture allegedly took place at locations outside the detention facilities.

“Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order make them fit for further interrogation,” said MSF’s general director Christopher Stokes. “This is unacceptable. Our role is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees, not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions.”

MSF said it will continue to work in schools and health facilities in Misrata.

Similar reports from Amnesty International

The organization’s decision to end its operations in detention centers coincides with a report from Amnesty International that contains similar allegations of torture at detention centers. Some cases of torture have even led to the deaths of some detainees, Amnesty said in a statement on Thursday, adding that the victims were often supporters of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Amnesty interviewed several detainees who it says are being tortured by “officially recognized military and security entities as well by a multitude of armed militias operating outside any legal framework.

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Note by the editor: This is similar to the militias rounding up foreigners and delivering them to the Libyan Red Crescent Camp for the International Organization for Migration repatriating them ‘voluntarily’ to their home countries. The question to ask would be: “Would you like to voluntarily return home or do you prefer to stay in detention?’ Mostly such foreigners are picked up on road blocks and are not even able to go to their homes to pack a suitcase…