UN rights council recommends Libya suspension, probe

The UN Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution by consensus to dispatch a mission to probe violations in Libya and recommending that the north African state be suspended from the body. Through the resolution, the UN body decided to "urgently dispatch an independent, international commission of inquiry ... to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law in Libya."
It also "recommends to the United Nations General Assembly, in view of the gross and systematic violations of human rights by the Libyan authorities," to consider suspending it from the Human Rights Council. Libya was elected in May 2010 to the council after obtaining 155 votes in a secret ballot from the 192-state General Assembly.
The country could be suspended from the rights body if two-thirds of UN member states meeting in the General Assembly were to approve the move.