Nov 5 Nigel Ash

HRW slams use of antipersonnel mines

By Hadi Fornaji.Tripoli, 5 November 2014:Zintani forces defending Tripoli International Airport are being implicated in the deployment of anti-personn...

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Oct 6 Nigel Ash

HRW slams UAE over detained Libyans

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 6 October 2014:Human Rights Watch has demanded that the United Arab Emirates reveal the whereabouts of ten Libyans...

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Oct 4 Nigel Ash

HRW calls for all death sentences to be suspended

By Hadi Fornaji.Tripoli, 4 October 2013:The advocacy group Human Rights Watch has called on Libya’s Supreme Court to suspend all death sentences so fa...

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Aug 9 Michel Cousins

Senior army officer murdered in Tripoli

Ashraf Abdul-Wahab.Tripoli, 9 August 2013:Yet another member of the armed forces has been murdered. Colonel Abdul-Wahab Mohammed Abdussalam Al-Lafi, a...

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Jun 14 Nigel Ash

Benghazi slaughter: HRW condemns official inaction

By Hadi Fornaji.Tripoli, 14 June 2013:It should not have taken the deaths of 32 people in Benghazi  for the government and the General National Congre...

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May 4 Nigel Ash

GNC must not let gunmen “railroad” it over Political Isolation Law: Human Rights Watch

By Hadi FornajiTripoli, 4 May 2013:Congress should not allow itself to be railroaded into making very bad laws because groups of armed men are demandi...

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Mar 20 Michel Cousins

HRW calls on Libya to stop revenge “crimes” against Tawerghans, wants UN sanctions against those involved


Tripoli, 20 March 2013:The New York-based human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has described the treatment of people from Tawargha a “cr...

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Dec 21 Michel Cousins

Stop Jalil's military trial demands Human Rights Watch

Tripoli, 21 December:The upcoming trial of the former National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil in a military court must be scrapped,...

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Human Rights Watch denounces Integrity Commission following disbarring of Zeidan ministers
Nov 16 George Grant

Human Rights Watch denounces Integrity Commission following disbarring of Zeidan ministers

By George Grant.Eight of Ali Zeidan's proposed ministers were absent from the swearing in of the new government on 14 November as a result of Integrit...

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Human Rights watch calls on Libya to join anti-landmine treaty
Oct 18 Michel Cousins

Human Rights watch calls on Libya to join anti-landmine treaty

Tripoli, 18 October:An 8-year-old mine victim being treated earlier this yearHuman Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Libya and other countries that hav...

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