Dozens of Libyans were wounded when anti-government protesters clashed with police in Benghazi, a hospital in the eastern city said Wednesday.

Dozens of Libyans were wounded when anti-government protesters clashed with police in Benghazi, a hospital in the eastern city said Wednesday, as Libya braced for “Day of Anger” inspired by revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt.

The director of Al-Jala hospital, Abdelkarim Gubeaili, told AFP that 38 people were treated for light injuries.

Quryna newspaper said security forces and demonstrators clashed late on Tuesday in what it branded the work of "saboteurs" among a small group of protesters.
The security forces intervened to halt a confrontation between supporters of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, who has been in power for more than 40 years, and the demonstrators, said the paper close to Kadhafi\\\\\\\'s son, Seif al-Islam.

The protest started as a sit-in by families of prisoners killed in a 1996 shooting in Tripoli\\\\\\\'s Abu Salim prison demanding the release of their lawyer, Fethi Tarbel, Libyan newspapers said.

Tarbel had been detained for having "spread rumors that the prison (in Tripoli) was on fire," according to Quryna, but was released after the demonstration.