The United Nations (UN) Fact-Finding Mission in Libya warned all Libyan parties against committing grave violations of human rights and international human rights law, urging them to refrain from violence.
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Algeria, Libya migrant pushbacks ‘inhumane’, MSF says
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Wednesday denounced the “inhumane treatment” of West African migrants turned back from Algeria and Libya to neighbouring Niger as they try to reach Europe.
Read More »What is behind Libya’s recent crackdown on human rights and activists?
Over the last few months, Libya’s Internal Security Agency (ISA) has rounded up seven young Libyans, accusing them of very serious crimes including that of apostasy, contempt of Islam and spreading of atheism. Such accusations in the predominantly Muslim and overwhelmingly conservative country could be a death sentence, even if …
Read More »Amnesty: Libya’s LAAF is ‘brutally crushing’ freedom of expression and peaceful assembly
The Internal Security Agency (ISA), a collection of powerful armed groups operating in areas under the control of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), is arbitrarily detaining at least nine peaceful protesters and a journalist incommunicado after they participated in a demonstration in Sirte, Amnesty International said today.
Read More »UN concerned by deepening crackdown on civil society in Libya through arbitrary arrests and campaign of social media vilification
The UN High Commission for Human Rights said today through its Official Spokesperson that it was ‘‘concerned by the deepening crackdown on civil society in Libya, where arbitrary arrests and a campaign of social media vilification are having a seriously chilling effect on human rights defenders, humanitarian workers, and other …
Read More »NCHRL urges Libyan security apparatuses not to publish detainees’ identities
The National Human Rights Commission in Libya (NCHRL) called on the Public Prosecutor to commit all security and military apparatuses to avoiding publishing confession statements and identities of detainees on social media and TV channels.
Read More »HRW World Report 2022: Rights Trends in Libya
After five months of UN-brokered political talks between Libyan stakeholders, the country’s House of Representatives swore in on March 15 a new interim authority, the Government of National Unity (GNU).
Read More »The Arab Youth: Aspirations for the New Year
Sada spoke to Arab youth about their hopes and wishes for the new year, which spanned everything from civil and political rights, to education, to arts and culture.
Read More »Libya: Rights groups demand ICC investigation into treatment of refugees
A number of human rights groups on Tuesday filed a dossier of evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) demanding the investigation of crimes against migrants and refugees in Libya that they said amount to “crimes against humanity”.
Read More »NCPLHR denounces HoR law on cybercrime for violating basic freedoms
Libyan NGO, the National Council for Public Liberties and Human Rights (NCPLHR) yesterday denounced the House of Representatives’ (parliament) recently passed cybercrime law for violating international obligations to protect basic freedoms.
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