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Libya: Two journalists risk torture and death under Gaddafi forces
LBY - News | 12 March 2011
Ghaith Abdul Ahad, a correspondent of the British newspaper the Guardian and Andrei Netto of the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo were arrested on Monday 7 March 2011 near Sabratah, a town on the Libyan coast. Three other journalists from the BBC, arrested on the same day, were tortured for 21 hours by Gadaffi's security forces, before being released.
Libya – At least 250 people disappeared, 70 dead in Al Jabl Al Akhdar region
LBY - News | 04 March 2011
As the situation in Libya continues to evolve, hundreds of people have been killed, injured and abducted by security forces, the military and militia still loyal to Colonel Gadaffi or by foreign mercenaries under his control. Alkarama's mission in Libya has information that, in the Al Jabl Al Akhdar region alone, at least 70 people have died and 250 people have been disappeared by these forces since the 16 February 2011.
Libya: 23 years in prison for a crime Saleh Hmeed never committed
LBY - News | 07 February 2011
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.
Libya: Alkarama calls for a investigation by the International Criminal Court into crimes committed by Colonel Gaddafi and his two sons
LBY - News | 21 February 2011
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.
Libya: Violence against demonstrators by armed civilians groups leads to more than 50 dead
LBY - News | 18 February 2011
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. These were immediately crushed by heavy intervention by the security forces accompanied by civilians recruited and armed by the authorities.