UN rights council to hold special session on Libya

The UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session tomorrow to discuss the violence in Libya, a UN official said yesterday, amid a global outcry and moves to set up a probe into suspected crimes against humanity.
"We received the request for a special session this morning, filed by the European Union," Alessandro Marra, an official at the UN human rights office told AFP. The request was signed by 47 United Nations member states from all regions of the world as well as the Palestinian Authority and marked the first time that a sitting member of the council will be subjected to a special session, he added.