But Gaddafi's captor, the Zintan militia, one of the most powerful forces in the country after playing a major part in winning the 2011 civil war, has refused even to transfer him for trial in the capital.
Police said on Friday that the men told investigators they were forced to live in the garage, which had one chair, no bed and a possibly malfunctioning air conditioner, so their captor could cash their public assistance checks.
Most, like Bakhita, are renamed, obliged to become Muslims, and then forced to marry their captor or herd his animals.
His captor eventually agreed and set him free.
So will Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, whose lavish gifts, as a melodist, arranger and captor of the Zeitgeist, made him the closest American match for Sir Paul.
He also handed back a valuable library of old books and manuscripts, looted by Soviet soldiers from a Protestant seminary in 1945.Such unprecedented words and deeds mark a new level of reconciliation between erstwhile captor and captive, albeit with a twist.
He pretended to his captor that he was willing to "do business" with him.
"These contacts are like a negotiation between a hostage and a captor," complained one democracy activist this week.
An experimental plant in Denmark that uses monoethanolamine as the captor has been running for two years.
The French political philosopher Montesquieu in his L'Esprit des lois (1748; The Spirit of Laws) wrote that the only right in war that the captor had over a prisoner was to prevent him from doing harm.
The captive, whether or not an active belligerent, was completely at the mercy of his captor, and if the prisoner survived the battlefield, his existence was dependent upon such factors as the availability of food and his usefulness to his captor.
