| On the evening of Aug. 23, during the final hours of the battle for Tripoli, a 26-year-old lawyer named Mustafa Abdullah Atiri was lying, exhausted, against the back wall of a filthy tin-roofed warehouse crammed with 150 prisoners. He had been beaten and tortured every day since Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's soldiers arrested him four days earlier. It was just after the muezzin's first call to evening prayer -- about 10 minutes before 8 -- when a pair of guards walked to the door, raised their AK-47 rifles and began spraying the men with bullets. |
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