Former Libyan rebels, some of whom have been accused of torturing detainees, still hold about three-quarters of the people they arrested during the country’s civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday. As many as 6,000 detainees, many of them Africans suspected of having fought for the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, remain under the control of the former rebels. The government has taken control of eight detention centers, Ian Martin, the United Nations’ special envoy for Libya, told the Security Council, but he said the government needs to step up the pace at which it takes over jails from the former rebels.
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