The General Authority for Search and Identification of Missing Persons in Libya announced on Monday that a new mass grave had been found in the city of Tarhuna, south of Tripoli.

Seventeen bodies have been unearthed in newly found mass graves in western Libya’s Tarhuna region, taking the total exhumed in recent months to 112, the missing persons authority said on Saturday.

The General Authority of Searching for the Missing has discovered four more mass graves in the city of Tarhuna.

The General Authority for the Search and Identification of Missing Persons announced yesterday the discovery of five new mass graves in the Rabt project area in Tarhuna. It said 12 unidentified bodies were recovered from the five discovered graves.

The Justice Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) has welcomed the appointment of the fact-finding commission which has been formed by the UN Human Rights Council to work in Libya.

The National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) has expressed dismay over the failure of the Minister of Justice of the Government of National Accord to exact justice and protect human rights in the country as well as to fix the criminal justice system and that of prisons.

Reporting 27 deaths and 40 injuries due to landmines and IED’s in civilian areas of south Tripoli up to 9 June, the Ministry of Justice of the internationally recognized Libyan government based in Tripoli yesterday announced that it had formed a committee to investigate these grave human rights violation.

Libyan authorities have announced the release of more than 450 prisoners as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus that has infected at least eight people in the country.

Tarhouna-based Al-Kani militias of Khalifa Haftar’s forces have killed a medical doctor named Othman Al-Tajouri and his paramedic companion Sulaiman Mayouf in Garabulli area as they targeted the car came under fire of the militias. Two other doctors have been injured.

French President Emmanuel Macron met Monday with Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar, who insisted he would commit to a ceasefire with the UN-recognised government in Tripoli as long as its militia fighters pledge to sign on as well.