{"id":199650,"date":"2025-06-06T07:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-our-worst-held-fears-are-being-confirmed-dozens-of-bodies-discovered-in-libya-mass-graves\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T07:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:18:57","slug":"libya-our-worst-held-fears-are-being-confirmed-dozens-of-bodies-discovered-in-libya-mass-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-our-worst-held-fears-are-being-confirmed-dozens-of-bodies-discovered-in-libya-mass-graves\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: &#8216;Our Worst Held Fears Are Being Confirmed&#8217; &#8211; Dozens of Bodies Discovered in Libya Mass Graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya. The grim findings confirm deep concerns about abuse and torture at the facilities, according to the UN human rights chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/about-us\/high-commissioner\/volker-turk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volker T\u00fcrk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;Our worst held fears are being confirmed: dozens of bodies have been discovered at these sites, <strong>along with the discovery of suspected instruments of torture and abuse, and potential evidence of extrajudicial killings<\/strong>,&#8221; T\u00fcrk said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">The sites where bodies were discovered are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506050004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya. The grim findings confirm deep concerns about abuse and torture at the facilities, according to the UN human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk. &#8220;Our worst held fears are being confirmed: dozens of bodies have been discovered at these sites, along with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00591426:0e6a911010d4d0f8a1942c0e8d17a9cd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,9428,8743,13006,6709,5140,24966,7297,4711,892,7883,257,254,10849],"class_list":["post-199650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bodies","tag-confirmed","tag-discovered","tag-dozens","tag-fears","tag-graves","tag-held","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worst"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00591426:0e6a911010d4d0f8a1942c0e8d17a9cd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}