Jan 21 Callum Paton

Human rights organisation accuses Finance Ministry of withholding funds and interfering in its work

By Callum Paton.Tripoli, 20 January 2014:Libya's National Council for Civil Liberties and Human rights (NCCLHR), has said that interference from the M...

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Mixed local feelings on Benghazi curfew
Jan 19 thomwestcott

Mixed local feelings on Benghazi curfew

By Ahmed Ruhayem.Benghazi, 19 January:Benghazi residents have been responding to the possibility of a night-time curfew being considered by the govern...

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Protesters stage unauthorised demonstration against law banning unauthorised demonstrations
Dec 5 George Grant

Protesters stage unauthorised demonstration against law banning unauthorised demonstrations

By George Grant. The protesters claimed the new law, as well as the new Ministry of Information, represented unacceptable restrictions on free speech....

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Dec 4 Nigel Ash

Activists worry GNC demo law infringes human rights

Tripoli, 4 December:Libyan and Arab human rights groups have called on the General National Congress to review and clarify elements of Law 6,5 dealing...

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Oct 4 Michel Cousins

Acting officiously

Dear Editor,Yesterday evening, my husband and I decided we wanted to go to the seaside, near the Mahari Radisson Blu hotel.We bought coffee and water...

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Jul 14 Michel Cousins

Government bans unlicensed protests

Tripoli, 14 July:The Ministry of the Interior has announced that no individuals, organisations or civil society groups will in future be allowed to ho...

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May 7 Nigel Ash

Lawyers damn "glorification" and amnesty laws

Tripoli, 8 May:An influential group of Libyan lawyers has condemned two new laws, criminalising glorification of Qaddafi’s regime and pardoning crimes...

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