Libya: Nato urged to investigate deaths
Rights group calls on Nato to investigate civilian deaths that resulted from air strikes… The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has failed to acknowledge dozens of civilian casualties from air strikes during its 2011 Libya campaign, and has not investigated possible unlawful attacks, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 76-page report, [...]
In Libya, Gaddafi’s former torturers have had a dramatic reversal of fortune… One night last September, a prisoner named Naji Najjar was brought, blindfolded and handcuffed, to an abandoned military base on the outskirts of Tripoli. A group of young men in camouflage pushed him into a dimly lit interrogation room and forced [...]
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New legislation criminalises free speech and those who ‘damage’ the revolution… Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) should immediately revoke a new law that bans insults against the people of Libya or its institutions, Human Rights Watch said today. The law also prohibits criticism of the country’s 2011 revolution and glorification of the deposed [...]
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People power 2.0 and how civilian tech helped to overthrow Gaddafi… After weeks of skirmishes in the Nafusa Mountains southwest of Tripoli, Sifaw Twawa and his brigade of freedom fighters are at a standstill. It’s a mid-April night in 2011, and Twawa’s men are frightened. Lightly armed and hidden only by trees, they [...]
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After all the recent buzz surrounding Kony 2012, we look at five more of Africa’s fugitives… Something striking about the Kony 2012 campaign is the surprise expressed by many at hearing that a man they had never heard of was responsible for such appalling atrocities. In this context, it seems appropriate to take [...]
Continue reading …Libya’s National Transitional Council has apologised for attacks that destroyed WWII war graves in Benghazi, and promised to track down those responsible. Video has emerged showing the destruction of the graves, in acts thought to prompted by the burning of Korans by US forces in Afghanistan. Read more at the BBC
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What will be the fate of Libya’s most prominent prisoner? Three months after Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was captured in the Libyan desert, it still remains unclear when and where he may be tried. Currently detained in the mountain town of Zintan, recent pictures of him comfortably sitting down to a substantial meal have [...]
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The country celebrates the start of the revolution, amid concerns about the future… Libya is today marking the anniversary of the revolution that eventually toppled Col. Muammar Gaddafi, though its doing so amid allegations of rights abuses that bear close resemblance to those of the past. On Friday 17 February, 2011, the first [...]
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