"Surely to leave an individual in this kind of limbo, which he was not left in previous to 2003, is not a practice which would commend itself to the civilisedworld, " he said.
"It's very important that Libya knows that how the Libyan government handles itself in the next few days will be very significant in the way the world views Libya's re-entry into the civilised community of nations, " Mr Miliband said.