Members of the Internal Security Agency (ISA), a collection of powerful armed groups operating in eastern Libya, have committed harrowing human rights abuses to silence critics and opponents, including detaining them arbitrarily and subjecting them to enforced disappearances and torture, said Amnesty International.
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‘Illegal EU measures’ linked to 2,000 refugee deaths: report
EU border agency Fortex played a key role in driving away refugees who are fleeing war and persecution in their thousands, the report states.
Read More »Libya ranks 165th in the Press Freedom Index
According to ‘Reporters Without Borders’, Libya has been ranked 165th in 2021, which is at the lower end of the list for the World Press Freedom Index 2021, which assesses the state of press freedom in 180 countries annually.
Read More »UNESCWA publishes preliminary study on governance and institutions in Libya
‘‘A Preliminary Study on Governance and Institutions in Libya: Reality, Challenges and Prospects’’ has been published by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA),
Read More »HRW: Apparent War Crimes in Tripoli … Summary Executions, Torture, Desecration of Corpses
The Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) should urgently investigate evidence that fighters affiliated with it apparently tortured, summarily executed, and desecrated corpses of opposing fighters, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks by the armed group, which is under the command of General Khalifa Hiftar, were recorded and posted on …
Read More »HRW: UAE Strike Kills 8 Civilians in Libya
An apparently unlawful drone attack by the United Arab Emirates that hit the Al-Sunbulah biscuit factory in Wadi al-Rabie, Libya, south of Tripoli, on November 18, 2019, killed 8 civilians and wounded 27, Human Rights Watch said today, after investigating the incident. The UAE appeared to take little or no …
Read More »Attacks of Haftar’s forces on Tripoli civilians continue as fighting rages on different frontlines
Heavy clashes erupted Sunday in southern Tripoli between the Libyan Army under the command of the Government of National Accord and Khalifa Haftar’s forces as the former advanced on different frontlines pushing Haftar’s fighters away amid their shortage of ammunition and supplies.
Read More »HRW: Italy Shares Responsibility for Libya Abuses against Migrants
On 11 November 2019, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch submitted a joint third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in a case involving Libya’s abuses against migrants during operations at sea and upon return to the country in November 2017.
Read More »Terrorists Fighting for the GNA Suffer Casualties in South Tripoli – SPECIAL REPORT
On the frontlines of southern Tripoli, as the fighting intensified last weekend and yesterday, the war witnessed terrorists from the Shura Council of Mujahideen in Derna (SCMD) and the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries (SCBR), as well as the remnants of Jadhran forces that fled from various areas in Cyrenaica, …
Read More »Eight deaths and 13 civilian injuries due to hostilities across Libya from 1 to 31 January 2019
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) documented 21 civilian casualties – eight deaths and 13 injuries – during the conduct of hostilities across Libya from 1 to 31 January 2019.
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