61 false Family Records, 225 National ID Nos. and Libyan passports suspended - legal proceedings against Civil Registry Office conspirators initiated
Jan 2 Sami Zaptia

61 false Family Records, 225 National ID Nos. and Libyan passports suspended - legal proceedings against Civil Registry Office conspirators initiated

The Attorney General’s Office reported yesterday that Public Prosecutor's Office is continuing its efforts to prevent the manipulation of citizenship...

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Authorities initiate criminal proceedings and take measures to invalidate 598 false National Identification Numbers issued to foreigners
Dec 17 Sami Zaptia

Authorities initiate criminal proceedings and take measures to invalidate 598 false National Identification Numbers issued to foreigners

The Attorney General’s Office reported today that the Investigators into the falsification of civil status data found evidence of negligence in the ma...

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Two Libyans and five expatriates detained for deliberately falsifying civil status data in Tobruk
Jan 29 Sami Zaptia

Two Libyans and five expatriates detained for deliberately falsifying civil status data in Tobruk

‎The Attorney General’s Office reported last Monday (27 January) that investigators have ordered the detention of two Libyans and five expatriates for...

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Pretrial detention of former Civil Registry Authority personnel for fraudulently recording 200 aliens as Libyan nationals
Jan 25 Sami Zaptia

Pretrial detention of former Civil Registry Authority personnel for fraudulently recording 200 aliens as Libyan nationals

The Attorney General’s Office reported yesterday that its Public Prosecutor has ordered the pretrial detention, pending investigation, of the former D...

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Foreign workers arrested by Internal Security Agency for falsifying official personal documents
Jul 20 Sami Zaptia

Foreign workers arrested by Internal Security Agency for falsifying official personal documents

The Internal Security Agency (ISA) announced last Monday (15 July) that it had arrested several foreign workers, and referred them to the judiciary, f...

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Attorney General evaluates first results of review into Libyan citizen’s civil status, auditing residence records and births, deaths and marriage registration
Oct 8 Sami Zaptia

Attorney General evaluates first results of review into Libyan citizen’s civil status, auditing residence records and births, deaths and marriage registration

The Attorney General held a meeting last Wednesday at his Tripoli headquarters with the Minister of State for Prime Minister and Cabinet Affairs, the...

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Acting Interior Minister Trabelsi taking steps to counter forged ID numbers and passports
May 19 Sami Zaptia

Acting Interior Minister Trabelsi taking steps to counter forged ID numbers and passports

Commenting on news that there are a large number of forged National ID Numbers and Libyan passports, Libya’s Tripoli-based Acting Minister of the Inte...

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ID Number forgeries exaggerated: CRA
Feb 24 Sami Zaptia

ID Number forgeries exaggerated: CRA

By Sami Zaptia.London, 24 February 2019:The Civil Registry Authority (CRA) has stressed that the alleged forgeries of National ID Numbers is not as wi...

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Jul 27 Nigel Ash

Passport officials murdered in Murzuk

By Libya Herald reporters. Murzuk town council (Photo: Houda Mzioudet)Benghazi, 27 July 2016:Demonstrators in Murzuk and nearby villages have been pro...

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Civil Registry Authority taken over by ‘’extremists’’
Mar 12 Sami Zaptia

Civil Registry Authority taken over by ‘’extremists’’

By Sami Zaptia.London, 13 March 2016:The Civil Registry Authority (CRA) confirmed yesterday that it had been forcibly taken over by ‘’ideologically ex...

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