Articles for Libya

On 3 September 2015, Alkarama referred the case of six brothers to both the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (SR SUMX) and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT).

On 14 August 2015, Alkarama referred the case of the Al Souid family, executed by General Khalifa Haftar's forces in the city of Benghazi on 15 October 2014, to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (SR SUMX) and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

On 6 July 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of Mr Abdelnaser Elgoroshi, a Libyan citizen abducted on 20 October 2014 in front of the Arab Medical University in the Belaon neighbourhood of Benghazi. Elgoroshi was working as a deputy prosecutor in South Benghazi Court and living in Arwisat neighbourhood in the same city.

On 22 July 2015, Alkarama referred the cases of 39 Libyan citizens, executed by the Zintan forces in the city of Kikla on 11 October 2014, to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extra-judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (SR SUMX) and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (

On 15 June 2015, Alkarama sent a communication the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture (SRT) concerning the cases of 10 Libyan citizens all subjected to torture at the end of 2014.

On 11 June 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and other Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council (HRC) concerning the case of Suliman Awad Zubi, a retired Libyan judge and member of the General National Congress (

On 13 May 2015, Libya's second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This process, which first started in 2008, occurs every four and a half years and aims to assess the human rights record of each United Nations' Member State by the Human Rights Council (HRC). It is thus an ongoing and daily tool to advance human rights. For this 22nd Session, 14 countries, including Libya, are examined.

On 10 April 2015, Alkarama briefed representatives from permanent missions in Geneva on its priority recommendations in view of Libya's Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which will be held in Geneva on 13 May 2015.

On 10 April 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SR SUMX) concerning the death under torture of Rami Rajab Abdelatti Al Fitouri on 21 March 2015.

During its 112th session in Geneva from 7 to 31 October 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued its decision in the case of Saleh Salem Hmeed and several members of his family, who were arrested, detained and tortured by the security services of Gaddafi's former regime.

Background

On 3 November 1986, after notifying the police of the discovery of one of his neighbours' body in a well on his agricultural land, Hmeed was arrested and severely tortured by the police to make him confess that he was the author of his neighbour's murder.