Libyan lawyer recalls arrest that sparked uprising

Libyan lawyer recalls arrest that sparked uprising,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
When Abdullah Senussi ordered the arrest of lawyer Fethi Tarbel on February 15 last year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Libya's then intelligence chief did not realise he was effectively signing the death warrant of Moamer Kadhafi's regime.
Tarbel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a human rights activist and former political prisoner,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was the coordinator of one of the few independent organisations in Libya - a group of families of victims of the Abu Salim prison massacre,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], where more than 1,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],200 political prisoners were killed by security forces in 1996.
Today Tarbel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 39,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is the new Libya's youth and sports minister. Casually dressed in a jacket and sneakers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he remembers that Tuesday a year ago when about two dozen men arrested him and drove him off to meet Senussi,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who headed the repressive arm of the Kadhafi regime.
Libyan Internet users had by then already fixed February 17 as their "Day of Anger" in the wake of Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings across the borders,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
The day was chosen to commemorate the death of 14 people in clashes that had erupted in Benghazi on the same date in 2006 when police assaulted demonstrators attacking the Italian consulate to protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
"People were still discussing this date but had not yet agreed on the time and place of the gathering,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Tarbel told AFP in an interview at his office in Tripoli.
"We also knew that not everyone had access to the Internet,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so (two days beforehand) we were looking at how to print leaflets calling for demonstrations and distribute them at the last moment in the city."
By then,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Senussi had learnt of Tarbel's "disruptive" intentions and ordered his arrest. "They told me to get out of the car and took me to the courtyard of the Benghazi police headquarters where security forces were stationed. I thought they were going to liquidate me,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," said Tarbel.
"I imagined my body getting riddled with bullets." When Senussi arrived,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he extended his hand and quipped "What is your point?" The discussion between the two men lasted for more than two hours,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as Senussi tried to persuade Tarbel to give up the cause of the Abu Salim victims' families,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in a country where political parties and independent organisations were banned.
News of Tarbel's detention had spread,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and families started gathering outside the police headquarters. "I heard shouting outside.
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