'Drop Charges Against Libyan Politicians'
The international rights group, Human Rights Watch, has urged the Libyan government to drop all criminal charges against two politicians and a newspaper editor.
A courthouse square (file photo).
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Libya:
NGO Calls for Moratorium On Capital Punishment
HRW, 4 October 2013
Libya's Supreme Court should suspend death sentences against a former Gaddafi official and a pro-Gaddafi fighter whose trial raises due process concerns, Human Rights Watch said… Read more »
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Libya:
Gaddafi Loyalists Face Death Sentences
AI London, 2 August 2013
Hundreds of former soldiers and supporters of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi are at increased risk of the death penalty, said Amnesty International, following the sentencing of a… Read more »
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Libya:
Political Party Officials Could Face Death Penalty for Blasphemy
HRW, 20 June 2013
Libyan judicial authorities should immediately drop all criminal charges that violate freedom of speech over election poster cartoons against two Libyan National Party officials.… Read more »
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Libya:
Govt Must Drop Charges Against Politicians Over Women's Rights Cartoon
AI London, 14 June 2013
The Libyan authorities must drop charges against two politicians who published a cartoon on women's rights deemed to be offensive to Islam, Amnesty International said today. Read more »
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Libya:
Justice Takes Centre Stage in Libya
ISS, 22 November 2011
Ending weeks of speculation over the whereabouts of Saif al-Islam and Abdullah al-Senussi, the two were captured in Libya on 19 and 20 November 2011 respectively. Al-Islam, the… Read more »
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The director of the school where 33-year-old Ronald Smith taught said the American was "very much loved by his neighbours, students, and the school". Read more »
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