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Home » Press Releases » LBY - News » Libya: Reappearance of Abdussalam Il-Khwildy, missing since October 17, 2006
Alkarama had requested on December 3, 2006 the High Commissioner for Human Rights to intervene urgently with the Libyan authorities.
Abdussalam IL-KHWILDY, born on October 18, 1967, holds a degree in economics, is married and father of five children and lives in Benghazi.
He was arrested on October 17, 2004 and sentenced on 07 August 2006 to a term of two years imprisonment by a court of exception. He was accused of having, in 1996, helped his brother Khaled, an officer in the Lybian Air Force to flee the country.
Since that flight, the family has always suffered persecution from the authorities and reprisals from the "popular committees".
In April 1998, the eldest son, Djemaa Il-Khwildy, was summarily executed on a public road in Benghazi.
A few days after that event, all men of the family of Khaled Il-Khwildy, among them Abdussalam, were arrested at their homes by the department of Homeland Security.
A few months later, in July 1998, Mohamed Il-Khwildy who was on the run since the arrest of other members of his family, was killed in turn at his home by officers of Homeland Security.
All the men arrested have, to varying degrees, been subjected to ill-treatment, and only when Abdussalam Il-Khwildy admitted that he acted alone to help his brother escape, that his father and younger brothers were released after more than a month of detention.
Abdussalam Il-Khwildy remained in secret detention for 9 months during which he was savagely tortured before being transferred in January 1999 at the Abu Slim prison in Tripoli. After spending 5 years in detention, he was released without trial in May 2003.
He was again arrested on October 17, 2004 and sentenced to two years in prison. Even though he should have been released on October 17, 2006, he was taken outside the prison of Abu Slim.
On 19 October 2006, he called his father by phone to announce that he is in a place called "El Istiraha", and that he will probably be released shortly.
However, since then, his parents no longer had any news of him, and received confirmation that he was in no other prison in the country. The services of Homeland Security refused to give any information and denied detaining Mr. Il-Khwildy simply telling his father that "anyway, he was released."
Abdussalam Il-Khwildy finally reappeared on April 30, 2008, but his detention is no less arbitrary since he finished his sentence in October 2006.
We recall that Libya has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which allows victims of violations of principles of the pact to submit their case to the Committee on Human Rights of the United Nations which is empowered to examine their complaint.
Abdussalam IL-KHWILDY, born on October 18, 1967, holds a degree in economics, is married and father of five children and lives in Benghazi.
He was arrested on October 17, 2004 and sentenced on 07 August 2006 to a term of two years imprisonment by a court of exception. He was accused of having, in 1996, helped his brother Khaled, an officer in the Lybian Air Force to flee the country.
Since that flight, the family has always suffered persecution from the authorities and reprisals from the "popular committees".
In April 1998, the eldest son, Djemaa Il-Khwildy, was summarily executed on a public road in Benghazi.
A few days after that event, all men of the family of Khaled Il-Khwildy, among them Abdussalam, were arrested at their homes by the department of Homeland Security.
A few months later, in July 1998, Mohamed Il-Khwildy who was on the run since the arrest of other members of his family, was killed in turn at his home by officers of Homeland Security.
All the men arrested have, to varying degrees, been subjected to ill-treatment, and only when Abdussalam Il-Khwildy admitted that he acted alone to help his brother escape, that his father and younger brothers were released after more than a month of detention.
Abdussalam Il-Khwildy remained in secret detention for 9 months during which he was savagely tortured before being transferred in January 1999 at the Abu Slim prison in Tripoli. After spending 5 years in detention, he was released without trial in May 2003.
He was again arrested on October 17, 2004 and sentenced to two years in prison. Even though he should have been released on October 17, 2006, he was taken outside the prison of Abu Slim.
On 19 October 2006, he called his father by phone to announce that he is in a place called "El Istiraha", and that he will probably be released shortly.
However, since then, his parents no longer had any news of him, and received confirmation that he was in no other prison in the country. The services of Homeland Security refused to give any information and denied detaining Mr. Il-Khwildy simply telling his father that "anyway, he was released."
Abdussalam Il-Khwildy finally reappeared on April 30, 2008, but his detention is no less arbitrary since he finished his sentence in October 2006.
We recall that Libya has ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which allows victims of violations of principles of the pact to submit their case to the Committee on Human Rights of the United Nations which is empowered to examine their complaint.