May 18 Sami Zaptia

ICC Prosecutor Bensouda’s Libya statement to UN Security Council

By Sami Zaptia.ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda presented her report on Libya to the UN Security Council yesterday (Photo: ICC).London, 18 May 2021:In he...

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Mar 25 Sami Zaptia

ICC-wanted Warfali assassinated in Benghazi

By Sami Zaptia.UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had expressed his alarm at images circulating of an alleged summary execution by Mahmoud Warfali...

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Funeral prayers for 14 victims of Tarhuna’s mass graves held in Tripoli Friday
Jan 24 Sami Zaptia

Funeral prayers for 14 victims of Tarhuna’s mass graves held in Tripoli Friday

By Sami Zaptia.London, 24 January 2021:A funeral prayer ceremony was held Friday in Martyrs Square in Tripoli for 14 male and female victims of allege...

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Jan 9 Sami Zaptia

Tarhuna’s Kani militia abducted, detained, tortured, killed, and disappeared people who opposed them: HRW report

By Sami Zaptia.London, 9 January 2021: Hundreds of residents of the Libyan town Tarhuna were abducted or reported missing between 2014 and 2020, Human...

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Jun 24 Sami Zaptia

UNSMIL welcomes establishment of Fact-finding Mission to Libya

By Sami Zaptia.London, 24 June 2020:The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) yesterday welcomed the establishment of an international Fact...

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Jun 19 Sami Zaptia

Serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law continue to be committed with complete impunity in Libya: UNSMIL’s Williams

By Sami Zaptia.London, 19 June 2020:Speaking at the 44th Session of the Human Rights Council yesterday, Acting SRSG and UNSMIL head Stephanie Williams...

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Jun 17 Sami Zaptia

Hafter’s LNA should urgently investigate apparent evidence of war crimes by aligned forces: HRW

By Sami Zaptia.London, 17 June 2020:Khalifa Hafter’s Libyan National Army (LNA) and its aligned forces should urgently investigate apparent evidence o...

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Jun 15 Sami Zaptia

UN Secretary-General Guterres deeply shocked by multiple mass graves in Libya

By Sami Zaptia.UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres (Photo: UN)London, 15 June 2020:The Spokesperson to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres sai...

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May 26 Sami Zaptia

Swiss company Kolmar taken to court for possible war crime of pillage through buying smuggled Libyan oil

By Sami Zaptia.After the publication of the report in March by Public Eye and TRIAL showing that Swiss company Kolmar was involved in the smuggling of...

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May 18 Sami Zaptia

Tripoli health ministry condemns ‘‘systematic attacks on civilians’’, 7 killed by shelling

By Sami Zaptia.(Libya's Tripoli based Ministry of Health logo).London, 18 May 2020:The Ministry of Health of the internationally recognized Libyan gov...

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