[applause] >> naida will take command of all military operations in libya on wednesday. -- nato will take command of all military operations in libya on wednesday. >> as protests continued in the middle east and as nato takes control of military operations in libya, find the latest on the c-span bail library. -- video library. >> "washington journal" is next. later this morning, a discussion on japan's ailing nuclear power plants. we will have a member of the nuclear regulatory commission. and the house is in at 2:00 eastern. they will work on the airport programs measure and the bill to terminate a mortgage assistance program. live coverage here on c-span. coming up this hour, we will continue our conversation on libya. a defense analyst at the heritage foundation joins us. then we willk

protesters in late 2009, resulting in the death of at least seven protesters, and i would add we all rather naida who was killed online. authorities announced their security forces had arrested more than 6,000 individuals after june, 2009. hundreds, including lawyers, rights defenders, journalists, civil society activists and opposition leaders, remain in detention without charge. since the election crackdown last year, well over a thousand people have fled iran to seek asylum in neighboring countries. interrogators used torture to extract confessions, and the judiciary relied on sentencing people to lofton prison terms and death sentences. restrictions on freedom of expression and association as well as religious and other gender-based discrimination continue unabated. the report continued, authorities systemically use torture to coerce confessions. student activist abdullah mohmeni wrote to supreme leader ayatollah khomeini in september, describing the torture he suffered at the hands of jailers. at this writing, no high-level official has been prosecuted for torture, ill treatment and deaths o