Biden reverses Trumps’ discriminatory U.S. travel ban on Muslim and African countries
Jan 21 Sami Zaptia

Biden reverses Trumps’ discriminatory U.S. travel ban on Muslim and African countries

By Sami Zaptia.London, 21 January 2021: Newly inaugurated U.S. President, Joe Biden, yesterday reversed a number of Executive Orders and Presidential...

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Dec 10 Sami Zaptia

Working Group welcomes LPDF commitments to respect human rights

By Sami Zaptia.London, 10 December 2020: The co-chairs of the Working Group on International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights under the Berlin proces...

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Dec 2 Sami Zaptia

UNSMIL concerned at kidnap of leading doctor in Tripoli

By Sami Zaptia.London, 2 December 2020: UNSMIL today expressed ‘‘concern at the disappearance of Dr Siddiq Khalfallah Ben Della, a 66 year-old univers...

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Nov 17 Sami Zaptia

Media and CSO activists call for civil democratic state from LPDF

By Sami Zaptia.London, 17 November 2020: Several media organizations, journalists and human rights activists called on participants of the Libyan Poli...

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Nov 11 Sami Zaptia

Head of Serraj Media Foundation released by militias

By Sami Zaptia.London, 11 November 2020: Mohamed Omar Baiyu, Head of the Tripoli-based Libyan Media Foundation, was released yesterday.In a social med...

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Nov 11 Sami Zaptia

Wide condemnation of assassination of female lawyer and activist Hanan Barassi in Benghazi

By Sami Zaptia.Female lawyer and activist Hanan Barassi was assassinated in Benghazi yesterday (Photo: Social media).London, 11 November 2020: There h...

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Nov 10 Sami Zaptia

EU welcomes launch of Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in Tunis

By Sami Zaptia.London, 10 November 2020: The EU Heads of Mission yesterday welcomed the ‘‘recent positive and courageous steps taken by Libyans to end...

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Nov 9 Sami Zaptia

UNSMIL concerned by arbitrary ‘sabotage’ arrest of eastern Libyans arriving in Tripoli by militias

By Sami Zaptia.London, 9 November 2020: UNSMIL yesterday expressed its concern over the arbitrary arrest of eastern Libyans arriving in Tripoli by off...

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Nov 3 Sami Zaptia

EU calls on Libya to protect media freedom

By Sami Zaptia.London, 3 November 2020: The Ambassador of the European Union and the Ambassadors of EU Member States accredited to Libya call on the L...

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Oct 28 Sami Zaptia

Four new graves with 12 unidentified bodies discovered in Tarhuna

By Sami Zaptia.London, 28 October 2020: Four new graves, two of which were described as ‘‘collective’’ and two as ‘‘individual’’, were discovered in t...

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