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Country: Libya

More than seven years after the Libyan revolution, the country remains entrenched in an intricate civil conflict in which armed groups are failing to abide by the laws of armed conflict. The majority of human rights and humanitarian law violations occurring in Libya are committed by militias — acting with differing degrees of autonomy — on behalf of one of the two competing governments, the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), based in Tripoli, and the government based in the eastern cities of al-Bayda and Benghazi under the control of forces headed by Khalifa Haftar.

Operating outside any legal framework, these forces routinely carry out arbitrary arrests, abductions and enforced disappearances as well as torture and extrajudicial executions. Thousands of people are being detained in facilities under the control of the GNA’s Ministry of Interior or the Ministry of Defence, as well as those run by militias affiliated with the latter.

Libya’s political fragmentation and the lack of an independent and functioning judiciary renders the prosecution of perpetrators impossible. Accountability remains, therefore, an important issue for the whole country. Lastly, as the European Union is increasingly relying on Libya to limit migrant arrivals to its borders, detention centres have been set up in the country where refugees and migrants aiming to cross the Mediterranean are arbitrarily and indefinitely detained, and exposed to serious human rights violations.

Syrian migrant disappeared after being abducted by Libyan militant group

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Moustafa Mohammad Sharaf is a Syrian asylum seeker who used to live in Mrouj, in the Matn District of Mount Lebanon. On August 10, 2023, he boarded one of the two boats that set off from the northern coast of Lebanon in Akkar, attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea irregularly en route to Italy. The […]

Lebanese migrant disappeared after being abducted by Libyan militant group

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Khodr Khaled Al-Nabush is a Lebanese national. He lived in Bebnine, in the north of Lebanon. On August 10, 2023, he boarded one of the two boats that set off from the northern coast of Lebanon in Akkar, attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea irregularly en route to Italy. The Lebanese army beached one of […]

Human rights organisations call on Libyan authorities to rescind the new cybercrime law

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The undersigned organisations call upon Libyan authorities to rescind the cybercrime law recently adopted by the Libyan House of Representatives. The law would severely restrict freedom of expression, curtail press freedom, and legalise mass surveillance of speech online. Additionally, the law allows for warrantless blocking of websites and content.

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