Ailing 79-year-old Sufi Sheikh Muftah Al-Amin Al-Biju has been forcibly disappeared since his arbitrary arrest from his home in Benghazi on 4 February 2024 amid an intensified crackdown on Sufi clerics and activists by armed groups allied to the self-proclaimed Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), in de facto control of eastern Libya. Concerns over his health and wellbeing have been heightened by recent reports on the use of torture and other ill-treatment in Gernada prison, where he is believed to be held.