Libyan rebels said Sunday that over 10,000 prisoners arrested by embattled leader Muammar Gadhafi's government had been freed since the rebel forces took control of the capital Tripoli.
Libya's rebels have no concrete information on the whereabouts of Muammar Gaddafi or his sons, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, chairman of the rebel National Transitional Council.
Libya's rebel government will not negotiate with Muammar Gaddafi unless he surrenders, a top National Transitional Council official told Reuters on Sunday, adding rebel authorities did not know Gaddafi's whereabouts.
Trucks heaped with food and water and carloads of people streamed into Libya through the main border crossing with Tunisia on Sunday, hours after Tunisian authorities reopened it, a Reuters witness said.
Head of the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) Mostafa Abdel Jalil on Saturday vowed fair trials for those worked with fallen leader Muammar Gadhafi.
Six vehicles which thought to have important Libyan officials crossed the Libyan-Algerian borders Friday, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported on Saturday.
A report saying that Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi may have fled his country and entered neighboring Algeria by land cannot be confirmed by Algerian authorities on Saturday.
The international community needs to take urgent action to release frozen Libyan assets to the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) to avoid a crisis in the future.
The United States and South Africa struck a deal on Thursday to allow the release of $1.5 billion in frozen Libya funds for humanitarian aid and other civilian needs, UN diplomats said on Thursday.
Libya's Muammar Gadhafi called on his supporters to march on Tripoli and "purify" the capital of rebels, who he denounced as "rats, crusaders and unbelievers" in a defiant, angry speech that betrayed no hint of despondency.
Libyan rebels announced late Thursday to transfer their leadership from Benghazi to the capital Tripoli.
Defected Libyan ex-prime minister Abdessalam Abdel Jalloud said here at a press conference on Thursday that he was ready to found a new political party.
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