27 June 2011

Libya: Summary executions at Bani Walid

Seven people arrested by soldiers of the Libya army were summarily executed 28 May 2011 at Bani Walid. These victims are identified as Libyan civilians who were fleeing Libya and taking refuge in a collective home of Egyptian workers who were also executed during the incident. The exact number and identities of all of the victims remains unknown.

The Libyan Truth and Justice Committee, a group on the ground with which Alkarama has regularly collaborated, brought this information to our attention.

On 28 May 2011 at Bani Walid (a town in the west of the country about 171 kms from Tripoli) the following seven people were executed:

1. Fawzi Othman Al Shalafti: فوزي عثمان الشلافطي

2. Mostafa Hamouda Shaftar: مصطفي احمودة شفتر

3. Abdallah Shtiwi Shaftar: عبد الله اشتيوي شفتر

4. Mohamed Rajeb Mas'ud: محمد رجب مسعود

5. Youssef Mubarak Saleh: يوسف امبارك الله صالح

6. Mustafa Abdallah Saleh: مصطفي عبد الله صالح

7. Waleed Shaftar: وليد شفتر

We also present this list of the members of the security service that participated in these executions:

1. Abdel Kader Al Rafrufi: عبدالقادر الرفروفي (commander of the operation)

2. Khaled Hussein Jebran: خالد حسين جبران

3. Hussein Jebran Husein: حسين جبران حسين

4. Omran Al Mabrouk Shnishah: عمران المبروك اشنيشح

5. Khaled Ahmed Al Aswad Al Walidi: خالد امحمد السود الوليدي

On 21 June 2011 Alkarama addressed a communication to the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and requested his intervention with the Libyan authorities as a part of his mandate.

We recall that Libya has ratified the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights on 15 May 1970 and the Convention against Torture on 16 May 1989. It has also ratified the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights as well as the Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment on 16 May 1989.

Qatar - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

No

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Accessed on 11.01.2000
Optional Protocol: No
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): Yes
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

State report: Due on 23.11.2016 (3rd)
Last concluding observations: 25.01.2013

International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)

No

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 05.2014 (2nd cycle)
Next review: -

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) – Status A

Last review: 10.2010
Next review: 11.2015