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Category Archives: Libya
Libyan militias fighting to hold on to their grip on power
Amnesty International researchers have been in Libya looking at what’s happened in the country since the downfall of former leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. This is what they found: The number of armed men at checkpoints, hanging about on street corners and … Continue reading
Posted in Libya, Middle East And North Africa, Torture and Ill-treatment
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‘Resettlement is like rebirth’
Mawaheb Elnour was studying medicine when her family had to flee the conflict in Libya. This is her story of losing a home, finding a home, and everything that happened in between I was living in Tripoli with my parents, … Continue reading
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‘I am a modern-day slave’: Sub-Saharan Africans in Libya
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Libya researcher In Libya, undocumented Sub-Saharan Africans have never had it easy. During Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi’s rule, they were at risk of arrest, indefinite detention, torture or other ill-treatment and exploitation. Far from changing their … Continue reading
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‘Not what we fought for’: Endemic beatings and torture in the new Libya
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Libya researcher It is no secret that beatings and torture are endemic in post-Gaddafi Libya. Since spring 2011, Amnesty International has met countless people who described being beaten, electrocuted, threatened with death and otherwise abused … Continue reading
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Women who defied al-Gaddafi regime not spared from brutal jails
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s researcher in Libya. One of the grimmest features of the armed conflict in Libya has been the spate of arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of thousands of suspected opponents of Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi. Some are … Continue reading