Words to Deeds

The Urgent Need for Human Rights Reform

I. Summary

II. Methodology

III. Recommendations

Regarding the People's Court

Regarding the Death Penalty

Regarding Political Prisoners

Regarding Freedom of Expression

Regarding Freedom of Association

Regarding Torture

Regarding the Draft Penal Code

Regarding the Committee to Investigate the 1996 Deaths in Abu Salim Prison

Regarding International Human Rights Treaties

IV. Background

V. The People's Court

VI. The Penal Code

VII. The Death Penalty

VIII. Political Prisoners

Fathi al-Jahmi

Muslim Brotherhood

Prisoners Who Have "Disappeared"

IX. Torture

Libyan man, identity withheld

Torture of non-Libyans

Benghazi AIDS Case

The Benghazi Football Club Case

Muslim Brotherhood Case

X. Freedom of the Press

The Print Media

Al-Jamahiriya Newspaper

Al-Shames Newspaper

Al-Zahf al-Akhdar

Broadcast Media

The Internet

Treatment of the Foreign Press

Journalist Arrested

Journalist Killed

XI. Freedom of Association and Assembly

XII. Libyan Law and Human Rights

XIII. Libya and International Human Rights Law..

XIV. Acknowledgements