The National Commission for Human Rights in Libya condemned the renewed armed clashes and the escalation of violence between gunmen from Awlad Sulaiman and Tabu tribes. On Tuesday, the Committee expressed condemnation of the bombardment which left 3 dead and 12 wounded among civilians, including 3 children ages between 7 …
Read More »Libya wins legal dispute demanding more than 120 million dinars
The Audit Bureau confirmed that the management of the State’s cases in coordination with the Bureau succeeded in winning an arbitration dispute by rejecting the case brought before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris against Libya by the Libyan-Brazilian Company and the Brazilian company Odebrecht. The Bureau said …
Read More »Al-Mismari: We will not handover Al-Warfali to ICC
Haftar forces spokesperson, Ahmed al-Massmari said his command will not hand over the commander of the Special Forces, Mahmoud Al-Warfali to the International Criminal Court (ICC). In a televised interview on Thursday, Al-Massmari said the military police of Hafar’s forces had released Al-Warfali “on bail”, adding that his extradition to …
Read More »Al-Warfali released after protests in Benghazi
On Thursday, the military police of the Haftar forces released the commanding officer of the Special Forces wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), Mahmoud Al-Warfali. The official of the media Office of the Special Forces, Riyad Al-Shuhebi, told Russian news agency Sputnik, the military police department of the forces …
Read More »UN mission to Libya calls for immediate extradition of criminals
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) called for the handover of special forces commander in Haftar forces, Mahmoud Al-Werfalli to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The UNSMIL expressed, on its Twitter account, its deep condemnation of what it described as brutal executions that took place, on Wednesday in …
Read More »Team from the Guernica 37 International Justice chambers submits complaint against Khalifa Haftar to ICC
A team from the Guernica 37 International Justice chambers announces that they have submitted a complaint to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Khalifa Haftar and his forces in #Benghazi during a press conference. The file presented includes witness …
Read More »Libya’s delegate to the Security Council Mahdi Al-Maghrabi: Libyan authorities are exercising the use of their jurisdictional authority does not mean that international criminal decisions are not respected
Libya’s delegate to the Security Council, Mahdi Al-Maghrabi, said that Libyan authorities are responsible for fighting impunity and achieving justice on Libyan soil. During a speech at the Security Council on Wednesday, Al-Maghrabi explained that just because Libyan authorities are exercising their sovereignty and jurisdictional authority to prosecute the accused, …
Read More »ICC prosecutor urges Khalifa Haftar to hand over Mahmoud Werfalli
International Criminal Court prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, delivered an appeal before the UN Security Council in regards to senior Libyan military commander Mahmoud Werfalli. Bensouda urged Operation Dignity Commander, Khalifa Haftar, to hand over Werfalli for prosecution for war crimes. Bensouda asked that Haftar “demonstrate, by concrete actions, respect for international …
Read More »Lawyers say that Libya is unable to investigate war crimes
The Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) association, which contains Libya’s leading human rights lawyers, stated that Libya is incapable of investigating war crimes and human rights violations as there is no independent body. As such, it is their belief that the investigative role must be undertaken by the International …
Read More »Will the world let Libya’s Ganfouda become the next Srebrenica?
(Republished from the Middle East Eye) By: Dr AbdelRahman Ali Much of the world’s attention – if not already fixated on a Trump presidency – has been captured by the ongoing conflict in Syria and Iraq involving the Islamic State and the Syrian regime, but another tragedy has been unfolding gradually …
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