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February 16, 2018 News Release

Libya: Residents Barred from Returning Home

ICC Should Investigate Forced Displacement of Tawerghans

Make-shift tent camp in Qararet al-Qatef for forcibly displaced residents of Tawergha who are blocked from returning to their hometown by militias from Misrata, Qararet al-Qatef, Libya, February 10, 2018. © 2018 Emad Ergeha

February 1, 2018 Report

Libya: Displaced Benghazi Families Prevented From Return

Torture, Disappearances, Property Seizure

Members of the Libyan National Army climb a destroyed building during clashes with opposing forces from the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, in Sidi Khreibish neighborhood in Benghazi, Libya, November 10, 2017.

January 25, 2018 News Release

Libya: Deadly Mosque Attack A Violation of Laws of War

Carnage in Benghazi

People walk near a puddle of water mixed with blood at the site of twin car bombs near a mosque in the Salmani neighborhood of Benghazi that resulted in scores of deaths and injuries, Libya, January 24, 2018. © 2018 Reuters

January 18, 2018 News Release

Top 5 Reforms Middle East Governments Can Make in 2018

Respond to Youth Demands, Gain Respect in the World

Demonstration outside Parliament on December 6, 2016, with women in white dresses and wrapped in bandages, calling for the repeal of article 522 of the penal code.

January 18, 2018 News Release

Libya: Impunity Drives Violence

Extrajudicial Killings, Arbitrary Detentions, Migration Crisis

Demonstrators gather to protest against the presence of militias in the Libyan capital in Tripoli's Martyrs' Square on March 17, 2017. © MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images

December 7, 2017 News Release

Libya: New Wave of Attacks Against Sufi Sites

Killings, Destruction Amid Impunity

3. Destruction of Al-Andalousi mosque by unidentified armed groups, Tajora, March 2013. © Nader Elgadi

November 29, 2017 Report

Libya: Mass Extra-Judicial Execution

Need for Investigation, Accountability

November 5, 2017 News Release

Libya: 16 Civilians Killed in Derna Airstrikes

Press Libyan National Army To Honor Pledge To Investigate

Al-Wihda Hospital staff housing units in Derna, Libya, damaged by airstrikes on February 7, 2016, according to a witness.

September 27, 2017 Statement

UN Human Rights Council should prioritize countering raging impunity in Libya

Interactive Dialogue – High Commissioner’s oral update on Libya

The above image is a screenshot from a video posted on July 24, 2017 showing the apparent summary execution by LNA fighters of 20 prisoners, whom the commander, believed to be ICC suspect Mahmoud Al-Werfalli (wearing cap), accuses of “terrorism.”

August 24, 2017 Commentary

Middle East on a Roll to Repeal 'Marry the Rapist' Laws

Rape-marriage exoneration laws are relics of the colonial past. It's time to leave them there.

August 16, 2017 News Release

Libya: Videos Capture Summary Executions

International Criminal Court Issues Warrant for LNA Commander

August 8, 2017 Letter

Letter to the Commander of the Libyan National Army

August 2, 2017 News Release

Italy: Navy Support for Libya May Endanger Migrants

Help for Libyan Coast Guard Risks Complicity in Abuse

Migrants on a boat that they tried to take to Italy, after being detained at a Libyan Navy base in Tripoli on September 20, 2015.

July 27, 2017 Report

Libya: Activists Being Silenced

Attacks, Threats, and Harassment

Demonstrators gather to protest against the presence of militias in the Libyan capital in Tripoli's Martyrs' Square on March 17, 2017.

July 20, 2017 News Release

Libya: Incitement Against Religious Minority

Repudiate Discriminatory Edict

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