The picture of the men which appeared on Facebook with execution and mutilation threats. A Libyan militia is promising to hand 12 ‘homosexual’ men over to the nation’s Ministry of Justice, easing fears they were planning to mutilate and execute them. The men were taken from a private party in Tripoli and a picture of them lined up facing a wall was posted on Facebook, with comments threatening to mutilate and execute them. “Execution will never happen”, said a senior member of the Nawasi brigade has told the Libya Herald. “We are handing them over to the Ministry of Justice”. He says the men were arrested for the noise they were making, not because they are believed to be gay. “These guys are not straight, but that’s not the main reason we arrested them”, he said. “The main thing was the big noise they were making to the neighbours, as well as the large amounts of alcohol and hashish we found”. The militia member says the threats to their lives are due to not having a communications office: “We have about three guys mainly working from home and we can’t always control what’s posted. We are trying to upgrade but we haven’t received a proposal of how to do it,” he says.
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First published: Wednesday, 28th November 2012 - 11:03am