Being smacked in the face is one thing but when last did you receive a lashing to the bottom of your feet?

Saadi Gaddafi, one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, is currently being held  in a prison in Tripoli on a number of charges, the strangest of which sees him accused of killing a footballer during his time as president of the Libyan Football Federation.

It looks like the guards never took much of a liking to him, with EWN describing the above video as follows:

In the video, Saadi is beaten on his face while being questioned and later on the soles of his feet, tied to a pipe, while he is screaming. He is also forced to listen and watch other screaming prisoners being beaten outside the room he is held in.

The video’s authenticity could be not be independently verified.

“The graphic video that seems to show prisoners being beaten raises serious concerns about the methods used to interrogate al-Saadi Gaddafi and other detainees at al-Hadba prison,” Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at New York-based Human Rights Watch, said.

Tripoli’s prosecutor general said in a statement he had launched an investigation to identify the guards and “to take the necessary legal action against them.”

He might get much sympathy from the folks at Human Rights Watch but I imagine the Libyan people might feel a little differently about the son of one of their most feared leaders.

[source:ewn]