A group of four Libyan businessmen who were detained for 120 days in the United Arab Emirates and released in December last year have released a statement documenting their suffering at the hands of Emirati authorities.
Libya’s internationally recognized government and its allied forces are responsible for widespread arbitrary detentions and for torture and other ill-treatment in detention facilities that they control in Eastern Libya.
Armed groups across Libya are responsible for abductions of civilians including minors on account of their actual or perceived origin, opinion, family and political affiliation. UNSMIL is calling on all parties to the conflict to immediately release all those held solely on the basis of their identity or opinion and …
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said Tuesday that she was ready to investigate crimes committed by the Islamic State in Libya, where the United Nations is pushing for a peace deal.
Ahead of tomorrow’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Libya by the UN Human Rights Council, Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) has established a campaign to engage the involvement of Libyan civil society in the review. The campaign has been named UPRna, a play on Arabic in which the “-na” …
A Tunisian judge, sent to Beida last Saturday to investigate reports that the two missing Tunisian journalists, Sofiane Chourabi and Nadhir Gtari, had been killed , says he has been told they are now dead.
Daesh (ISIS) has released another video showing the murder of Ethiopian Christians in Libya on Sunday, AP reported.
Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) is proud to announce the launch of a series of three monthly reports on freedom of expression in Libya and to publish the first report today. The Sawti reports are based on LFJL’s ongoing research and monitoring of the freedom of expression situation in …
The U.N. Human Rights Council decided Friday to send a mission to war-torn Libya to investigate a range of abuses by different sides and help bring perpetrators to justice.
In a joint call for action, 13 national, regional and international human rights organisations including five from Libya, have called on the UN to support the creation of an independent body which would investigate human rights crimes in Libya by all sides since 2012. They say it is the only way to ensure “accountability, …
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