May 16

• ICC Considering Request to Try Qadhafi's Son in National Court

  UN News

  The International Criminal Court (ICC) is currently considering a request by the Libyan authorities to try the son of former leader Muammar al-Qadhafi in their national courts,... Read more »

• EOHR Welcomes the Release of Fishermen in Libya [press release]

  EOHR

  The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) welcomes the release of Egyptian fishermen yesterday, who disappeared in Libya in April 2012. Read more »

May 15

• Uneasy Calm After Clashes in South-Western City

  IRIN

  A tenuous peace has taken hold in Libya's southwestern city of Sebha more than a month after tribal clashes killed at least 70 people, with tensions still high between communities... Read more »

• Libya - Nato Denies Civilian Deaths Report

  Cameroon Tribune

  The North Atlantic Orgnaisation, NATO yesterday May 14, 2012 hit back at a report urging the alliance to investigate fully the deaths of civilians in air strikes in Libya last... Read more »

May 14

• Deserting Refugees in the Sahara

  IPS

  As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant "Libya free, Chadians out", before they... Read more »

• Attacks On the Press in 2011 [press release]

  CPJ

  Journalists worked in extraordinarily dangerous conditions during the eight-month uprising that ended 42 years of rule by Muammar Qaddafi and led to his death. Five journalists... Read more »

• Nato - Investigate Civilian Deaths [press release]

  HRW

  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... Read more »

• EOHR Calls for Rescuing 13 Egyptian Fishermen in Libya [press release]

  EOHR

  The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) expresses worry for kidnapping 13 Egyptian fishermen in Libya. The detained people disappeared in April 2012. Read more »

May 11

• Nation Nearing Key Moment in Its Democratic Transition, Says UN Envoy

  UN News

  Libya is nearing a key moment in its democratic transition with upcoming elections, the United Nations envoy for the North African country said today, while adding that the polls... Read more »

• Amend New Special Procedures Law - Reject Impunity for Serious Crimes [press release]

  HRW

  Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) should immediately amend a new law that protects from prosecution people who committed crimes if their actions were aimed at "promoting... Read more »

May 10

• The More Things Change, The More it Stays The Same? [analysis]

  African Arguments

  The most recent political developments in Libya strongly support the sense that the country is quickly moving from one autocracy to another one. The only question is whether it... Read more »

May 8

• Repressive New Law Criminalizes Insulting Government Institutions

  RSF

  Reporters Without Borders calls on Libya's interim parliament, the National Transitional Council (NTC), to repeal the law criminalizing any "insult to the Libyan people and its... Read more »

May 7

• Revoke Draconian New Law [press release]

  HRInfo

  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.... Read more »

• Revoke Draconian New Law - Legislation Criminalizes Free Speech [press release]

  HRW

  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.... Read more »

May 3

• Detained Migrants Face Harsh Conditions

  IRIN

  In one of the many rooms where detainees are held at Ganfouda detention centre in Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, Suleiman Mansour*, a young Somali from Mogadishu, spends... Read more »

May 2

• UN Mission Voices Concern Over Detainee Deaths Resulting From Torture

  UN News

  The United Nations mission for Libya has expressed its concern to the country's authorities over the recent deaths of three people in a detention centre in the north-western city... Read more »

May 1

• Thousands Still Afraid to Return Home

  IRIN

  Six months after an uprising brought down Muammar Gaddafi's government, thousands of displaced Libyans are still living in abandoned construction sites, empty student dormitories... Read more »

• Refugees Struggle to Get By in Tripoli [press release]

  UNHCR

  When things got desperate in Libya last year, Aisha* thought of leaving and risking return to her native Iraq with her four children. But as other refugees from Iraq and elsewhere... Read more »

April 30

• Ambassador - Immigrants in Libya Are Facing Mega Problems

  Shabelle

  Somali ambassador in Libya Abdiqani Mohammed Wacays said Somali immigrants in that country are facing appalling living conditions after they left from their own country for... Read more »

• Amend Vetting Regulations for Candidates, Officials - Prohibitions On Candidacy Vague and Imprecise [press release]

  HRW

  Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) should amend regulations to eliminate vague and broad prohibitions on who may serve as a government official or become a candidate for... Read more »

• African Commission On Human and Peoples' Rights (the African Commission) Request to Mr. Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Chairman of the National Transitional Council of Libya [document]

  Foroyaa

  REQUEST FOR PROVISIONAL MEASURES UNDER RULE 98 OF THE RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS Read more »

• Is North Korea Next Target After Iraq, Libya and Now Syria? [column]

  Daily News

  Invading Iraq was a mistake. Peace-loving Americans said so through demonstrations the length and breadth of USA. The world said it in many ways from peaceful demos to violent... Read more »

April 29

• Peace Lost in the Desert

  IPS

  The recent outbreak of violence between the largely segregated Zwai and Tabu tribes in Libya's remote, Saharan town of Kufra shattered the uneasy calm that held since last... Read more »

April 27

• UN Mission Welcomes Start Date for Registration of Voters, Candidates

  UN News

  The United Nations mission in Libya today welcomed the announcement by the country's electoral authorities of the start date for the registration of voters and candidates for the... Read more »

April 25

• International Partnership Guarantees U.S. Loan for Tunisia [press release]

  State Department

  Finance ministers of some of the world's wealthiest countries reaffirmed their support for emerging democracies of the Middle East and North Africa in Washington on April 20. Read more »