Bilal Abdul Kareem is an award-winning African American journalist who believes he has been targeted for assassination by the US because of his work covering the conflict in Syria.
The establishment of a fact finding mission is a signal to warlords and armed groups that they could be held accountable for serious crimes committed by their rank and file.
Armed groups in Libya hold thousands of people in arbitrary and unlawful detention, and submit them to torture and other human rights violations, according to a UN report.