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XIV. Acknowledgements

Human Rights Watch’s three-week delegation to Libya in April-May 2005 was composed of Fred Abrahams, senior researcher in the Middle East and North Africa Division, Farida Deif, researcher in the Women’s Rights Division, and Ophelia Field, acting director of the Refugee Program to Human Rights Watch.  Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division, and Widney Brown, deputy program director of Human Rights Watch, joined the mission for six and four days respectively.  Fred Abrahams wrote the report.  It was edited by Sarah Leah Whitson and Joe Saunders, deputy program director of Human Rights Watch. Wilder Tayler, legal and policy director to Human Rights Watch, provided a legal review.  Assef Ashraf and Tarek Radwan, associate for the Middle East and North Africa Division, and Andrea Holley, manager of outreach and publications, prepared this report for production.  Additional production assistance was provided by Fitzroy Hepkins, mail manager, and Jagdish Parikh, online communications content coordinator.  Human Rights Watch interns Hanan Thabet and Omar Ebeid helped with research and translation.

Human Rights Watch thanks the Libyan government for facilitating the trip.  The organization enjoyed access to top-level officials, as well as to police stations, immigration detention facilities and prisons.  The delegation met a wide spectrum of individuals and organizations in government, law enforcement, the media, charity groups and academia.  The government granted all requests to interview specific prisoners, but prohibited members of the delegation from meeting Libyans or foreigners in Libya without prior authorization.  Human Rights Watch also thanks the many individuals in Libya and other countries who helped strengthen this report’s accuracy and depth.




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