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The Libyan government should take immediate steps to assume custody of all of the roughly 5,000 detainees still held by militias. The Defense and Interior Ministries have not been able to rein in the well-armed militias or to convince them to hand over detainees to Libyan authorities. These detainees and the approximately 4,000 others already in state custody should be granted their full due process rights.

(Tripoli) – The Libyan government should take immediate steps to assume custody of all of the roughly 5,000 detainees still held by militias. The Defense and Interior Ministries have not been able to rein in the well-armed militias or to convince them to hand over detainees to Libyan authorities.

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The Libyan authorities have yet to bring former prime minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi before a judge or inform him of the charges against him though he was extradited from Tunisia on June 24, 2012, Human Rights Watch said today after visiting al-Mahmoudi in his prison cell in Tripoli. Al-Mahmoudi said that he had not suffered any abuse during his detention in Libya, but that he had been physically abused in detention in Tunisia.

(Tripoli) – The Libyan authorities have yet to bring former prime minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi before a judge or inform him of the charges against him though he was extradited from Tunisia on June 24, 2012, Human Rights Watch said today after visiting al-Mahmoudi in his prison cell in Tripoli.

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The release by Libyan authorities of four International Criminal Court (ICC) staff members on July 2, 2012, was a positive move, but their detention appears to have been unlawful from the start. The court officials, who had been held in the town of Zintan since June 7, flew out of Libya on a plane provided by the Italian government.

(Tripoli) – The release by Libyan authorities of four International Criminal Court (ICC) staff members on July 2, 2012, was a positive move, but their detention appears to have been unlawful from the start, Human Rights Watch said today.

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The sixteenth anniversary of the Abu Salim prison massacreon June 28 to 29, 2012, offers victims’ families across Libya the first chance to commemorate the 1996 tragedy without fear of government repression.

(Tripoli) – The sixteenth anniversary of the Abu Salim prison massacre on June 28 to 29, 2012, offers victims’ families across Libya the first chance to commemorate the 1996 tragedy without fear of government repression.

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The individual candidates and political entities competing in Libya’s July 7, 2012 national election should explain how they plan to end the ongoing problem of torture and illegal detention, which continues to affect thousands of people.

(Tripoli) – The individual candidates and political entities competing in Libya’s July 7, 2012 national election should explain how they plan to end the ongoing problem of torture and illegal detention, which continues to affect thousands of people.

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The Libyan Supreme Court’s decision on June 14, 2012, that declared unconstitutional a law that criminalized a variety of political speech is a landmark decision. The court ruled that Law 37/2012 was an unconstitutional restriction on free speech.

(Tripoli) – The Libyan Supreme Court’s decision on June 14, 2012, that declared unconstitutional a law that criminalized a variety of political speech is a landmark decision. The court ruled that Law 37/2012 was an unconstitutional restriction on free speech.

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بقلم: ديانا الطحاوي، الباحثة في الشؤون الليبية في منظمة العفو الدولية

أولاد المهاجرين الأفارقة من جنوب الصحراء الكبرى في مركز الاعتقال في “غريان” في ليبيا © Amnesty International

في ليبيا لم تكن حال الأفارقة غير الموثقين من جنوب الصحراء الكبرى  على مايرام على الإطلاق.
فخلال حكم العقيد معمر القذافي كانوا عرضة لخطر الاعتقال والاحتجاز إلى أجل غير [...]

Por Diana Eltahawy, investigadora de Amnistía Internacional sobre Libia
En Libia, los africanos subsaharianos indocumentados nunca lo han tenido fácil.
Durante el régimen del coronel Muamar al Gadafi, se exponían a ser detenidos, recluidos indefinidamente, sometidos a tortura y otros malos tratos y a sufrir explotación.
Lejos de cambiar su situación, la “Revolución del 17 de febrero” del [...]

Par Diana Eltahawy, spécialiste de la Libye à Amnesty International
En Libye, les Africains sub-sahariens en situation irrégulière ont toujours eu la vie dure.
Lorsque le colonel Kadhafi était au pouvoir, ils risquaient d’être arrêtés, placés en détention illimitée, soumis à la torture ou à d’autres formes de mauvais traitements, [...]

By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Libya researcher
In Libya, undocumented Sub-Saharan Africans have never had it easy.
During Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi’s rule, they were at risk of arrest, indefinite detention, torture or other ill-treatment and exploitation.
Far from changing their fate, last year’s “17 February Revolution” left Sub-Saharan Africans vulnerable to [...]

Por Diana Eltahawy, investigadora de Amnistía Internacional sobre Libia
Es del dominio público que las palizas y la tortura son endémicas en la Libia posterior a Gadafi.
Desde la primavera de 2011, Amnistía Internacional ha conocido a innumerables personas que cuentan cómo las golpearon, las electrocutaron, amenazaron con matarlas y las sometieron a otros malos tratos en [...]

تعرَّض محمد للتعذيب على أيدي رجال إحدى المليشيات من مصراته وأصلى الرجال المسلحون جِلده بقطعة معدنية ملتهبة. © Amnesty International

بقلم ديانا الطحاوي، الباحثة في شؤون ليبيا في منظمة العفو الدولية
ليس سراً أن الضرب والتعذيب متفشيان في ليبيا ما بعد القذافي .
فمنذ ربيع عام 2011 قابلتْ منظمة العفو الدولية عدداً لا يُحصى من الأشخاص الذين [...]

Par Diana Eltahawy, spécialiste de la Libye à Amnesty International
Ce n’est un secret pour personne que les violences physiques et la torture ont pris une ampleur endémique dans la Libye post-Kadhafi.
Depuis le printemps 2011, Amnesty International a rencontré d’innombrables personnes disant avoir été victimes de coups, de décharges électriques, de menaces de mort et d’autres [...]

By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Libya researcher
It is no secret that beatings and torture are endemic in post-Gaddafi Libya.
Since spring 2011, Amnesty International has met countless people who described being beaten, electrocuted, threatened with death and otherwise abused inside detention facilities manned by anti-Gaddafi armed militias.
Yesterday, I met Mohamed (not his real name), who was [...]

ديانا الطحاوي، الباحثة في الشؤون الليبية في منظمة الع
فو الدولية
اثنا عشر شهراً مضت منذ آخر زيارة قمتُ بها إلى المستشفيات في ليبيا حيث كان جرحى الحرب التي شُنّت للإطاحة بالعقيد القذافي يرقدون آنذاك على أسرّة الشفاء.
العديد منهم كانوا من المدنيين الذين أُصيبوا جراء قيام القوات الموالية للزعيم الليبي السابق بقصف المناطق السكنية بشكل عشوائي، وذلك [...]

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