Ghanaian prisoners beaten to pulp in Libya for making phone call

Fifteen Ghanaian prisoners have been beaten to pulp in a prison in Libya for possessing phones.
The fifteen were identified and subjected to serious beatings after mobile phones were found on them during a random search in their cells.
One of the prisoners who identified himself as Eric Cudjoe said the Libyan prison authorities decided to conduct a search after one of the prisoners was seen by a police officer making a call.
“The Police officer became angry upon seeing him and accused him and other prisoners of deliberately making phone calls to Ghana to report of the maltreatment being meted out to us…so they conducted a random search and found phones on these people.
“They then took them out of the prisoners, locked them in chains here and called out some energetic prisoners here who held their hands and bodies while the prison wardens hit their legs with fat canes until they could not walk…,” he told Accra-based Peace FM.
The prisoners were thrown into special cells after the beatings.
Libya has been criticized for torturing black illegal migrants in their prisons.
Pictures and videos of armed rebels who have taken control of parts of the failing North African state selling some of the black illegal migrants into slavery.
The chilling images have caused world leaders and notable personalities to condemn Libya.
The Government of Ghana have so far helped to repatriate home more than 120 of these illegal migrants.
Eric Cudjoe has therefore appealed to the Government of Ghana to intensify the search for Ghanaian illegal migrants and help bring them back home.
“The embassy representatives should move from one prison to the other and search very well…there are many Ghanaians still in captivity who want to be set free and come home…,” he said.