Articles for Libya

Alkarama has informed the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) of the reappearance of a number of victims of enforced disappearance in Libya, whose cases had previously been submitted by Alkarama. The victims were recently freed by government authorities from several secret prisons formerly controlled by armed militias. 

On 6 May 2025, Alkarama submitted the case of Wael Mansour Abdeljawad Al Malki to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID). 

On 7 April 2025, Alkarama submitted its report to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council as part of the 4th cycle of Libya’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). 

Alkarama confirmed the release of Libyan parliament member from Tarhuna, Hassan Salem (also known as Hassan al-Farjani Salem Jaballah) and his brother Mohamed, as per a decision by the President of the Presidential Council, Mohamed al-Menfi. The two brothers are to remain under supervision. 

Their family expressed its gratitude to Alkarama for its attention to the case through its engagement with UN procedures and media coverage of the issue. 

On 19 March 2025, Al Shahed – Public Liberties and Human Rights and the Libyan Organisation for Truth and Justice, in collaboration with Alkarama, issued a joint appeal to UN committees, urging them to resume their respective reviews of the human rights situation in Libya. 

On 18 February 2025, Alkarama submitted a communication to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the case of five Syrians who have been arbitrarily detained since their arrest on 11 December 2024, by the Benghazi Internal Security Forces. 

In a letter addressed to the Italian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Alkarama strongly condemned the Italian authorities for allowing Osama Njeim al-Masri, head of the Judicial Police Authority in Libya and accused of crimes against humanity, to evade justice after being arrested pursuant to an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant. 

On January 16, 2025, Alkarama submitted two cases to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) concerning Mare Salih Mohammed Mohamed Al Arifi and Abdulrahman Khaled Abdulrahman Sulayman. Both Libyan nationals disappeared after being arrested by members of the "Stability Support Authority," a militia led by Abdel Ghani Al Kikli, also known as "Ghniwa." 

Recently released video footage has exposed harrowing scenes of torture perpetrated within "Qarnada" Prison, located in the city of Shahat in northeastern Libya, an area under the control of forces loyal to retired General Khalifa Haftar. 

On 9 December 2024, Alkarama addressed the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the detention of two brothers, Aboubakr and Embarek AL KHAZMI, following their arrest by Misrata forces on 7 September 2021.

Disappeared after their arrest