The Libyan authorities are being urged to investigate the death of a former ambassador who, it is believed, was tortured in custody.

The BBC hears accounts from prison inmates in Libya suggesting that supporters of former leader Col Gaddafi are being tortured in detention.

A Kosovo court acquits an ethnic Albanian former guerrilla commander and three aides over the torture and killing of Serbs in 1999.

The FBI offers a $1m (£636,000) reward for the safe return of former agent Robert Levinson, last seen in Iran five years ago while working as a private investigator.

Egypt's electoral commission ruled Tuesday that the man who experts say oversaw torture for the Mubarak regime is ineligible to run for president. Former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman had appealed a government ruling barring him from running for president in the country's upcoming elections. Suleiman, whose candidacy had caused an uproar among both Islamists and secular parties, was among ten would-be presidential candidates who were disqualified by the election commission on technical grounds