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Libya: Refugees and migrants refuse to disembark ship in desperate plea to avoid detention and torture

Libyan, European and Panamanian authorities must ensure that at least 79 refugees and migrants who are on board a merchant...

Libya: Women human rights defenders still under attack four years after activist’s assassination

The Libyan authorities must do more to protect women human rights defenders in the country and investigate the repeated violent...

Libya: Protect Civilians under siege in Derna 

Amid reports of an escalating humanitarian crisis in the besieged Libyan city of Derna, Amnesty International is calling on the...

Libya: Shameful EU policies fuel surge in detention of migrants and refugees

A surge in migrants and refugees intercepted at sea by the Libyan authorities has seen at least 2,600 people transferred,...

Libya: Special Forces commander apparently filmed committing extrajudicial executions must be handed over to the ICC

Responding to reports that yesterday Mahmoud al-Werfalli, former Field Commander of the Special Forces Brigade (Al-Saiqa) affiliated to the Libyan...

Libya: European governments complicit in horrific abuse of refugees and migrants

European governments are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by...

Libya: Six years on path of return for displaced Tawarghas remains blocked

Six years since the Tawargha people were displaced from their hometown by Misratah militia forces in August 2011, the community...

Libya: ICC arrest warrant for Special Forces commander raises hopes for justice

Responding to news that the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant today for the arrest of Mahmoud el-Wefelli,...

Libya: University professor latest in string of victims targeted in epidemic of militia abductions

The continuing rise in abductions at the hands of militias highlights how the absence of the rule of law in...

EU: Plans to ‘close’ sea border would lock refugees and migrants in horrendous conditions in Libya

Closing the EU’s southern sea borders would put thousands of refugees and migrants setting sail from Libya at risk of...

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