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Libyan rebels say they are concerned over the fate of thousands of prisoners held in Tripoli by the Gaddafi regime.
Rebel military spokesman Col Ahmed Omar Bani said almost 50,000 people arrested in recent months were unaccounted for.
The rebels believe they may be being held in underground bunkers, which have since been abandoned. Rights groups have seen evidence that dozens of people have been massacred near prisons, but Col Bani did not accuse anyone of killing the prisoners.
"The number of people arrested over the past months is estimated at between 57,000 and 60,000," he said in a news conference in Benghazi. "Between 10,000 and 11,000 prisoners have been freed up until now... so where are the others?"
The colonel appealed for anyone with information to come forward, and said it would be "catastrophic" if they had been killed.