Articles for Libya

Alkarama sent an urgent appeal this afternoon to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs Navanethem Pillay, requesting that she bring the grave situation in Libya, and in particular the indiscriminate killing and bombing of civilian demonstrators, to the attention of the UN Security Council with the aim that they initiate an International Criminal Court investigation.

Our organisation is especially concerned by the declarations of Seif el Islam Gaddafi, the son of the Head of State, who declared on Libyan State television on the night of 20 February 2011 that if his propos

Following the arrest on Tuesday 15 February of a known human rights defender, Mr Fathi Tarbal, and a number of journalists, bloggers and human rights activists, peaceful demonstrations calling for an end to the government of Muammar al-Gaddafi, in power for 40 years, broke out in several cities.

At midnight on Tuesday 15 February 2011, Fathi Tarbal, the human rights defender arrested earlier that day, was finally released and could go home to his family. However the arrests of people speaking their mind continue: Dris Al Masmari, who gave an interview on Al Jazeera on Tuesday, and Mohamed Asshiem, a well known blogger were both arrested at 7:00 this morning from their homes.

On 3 February 2011, Alkarama sent a communication to the Human Rights Committee requesting it examine the case of Saleh Salem Hmeed. He was arrested in 1986, severely tortured and accused of committing a crime for which there was no evidence he is culpable. He was then arbitrarily detained, following an unfair trial. When his children attempted to publicly complain about his situation in 2007, they too were arrested and subjected to torture.

On 3 November 1986, the corpse of a Hassan Mohamed Abou Naama was found in a well on a plot of farming land belonging to Mr Hmeed.

Documents Reveal Security Officers Were Protected From Prosecution; UN Intervention Sought

(Geneva, November 19, 2010) - Recently obtained documents show that Libya's security chief blocked an investigation into the death in detention in 2006 of a man being held under questionable circumstances, the human rights groups Alkarama, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), and Human Rights Watch said today.

The Human Rights Council meets on 9 November 2010 to proceed with the Universal Periodic Review of Libya. Alkarama has presented a report in this context.

- Libya's National Report

- Report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Libya

On 20 September 2010 at 12 :15am Ahmed Abdessalam Hassane Almanafi was kidnapped by Interior Security agents from his home in Hayy Al-Hadi'iq, Benghazi. Twenty Interior Security agents in several vehicles arrived at the scene before the kidnapping. 

The families of the victims of the Abu Salim prison massacre went out to demonstrate on Saturday, 17 April 2010, just as they go out every Saturday. Their peaceful protest consists of marching in front of Benghazi Court demanding that the Libyan government disclose the facts and events surrounding the June 1996 massacre. However, on this fateful Saturday, the Libyan authorities decided to lashback. A government supported families' association for the prison guards and police involved in the massacre rallied a counter-protest and attacked the victims' families.