Militias, armed groups and third states, backing warring parties, committed violations of international humanitarian law, including possible war crimes, with impunity. Fighting in and around the capital, Tripoli, and other cities in western Libya between forces loyal to the Government of National...

Farouq Alsqidig Abdulsalam Ben Saeed, a military prosecutor, has been forcibly disappeared since armed men in plainclothes abducted him from a Tripoli street on 26 June. His family lodged complaints with the police and prosecution authorities but received no information about his fate and...

Armed men abducted Mansour Atti, a journalist, blogger and head of the Red Crescent Committee and of the Civil Society Commission in Ajdabiya, on 3 June 2021 near his workplace in Ajdabiya, in northeastern Libya. Since then, his family have received no information about his fate and whereabouts,...

On 17 July 2019, Libyan parliamentarian and prominent woman’s rights defender Siham Sergiwa was brutally abducted from her home in Benghazi by armed gunmen, after publicly criticising the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army’s military campaign to seize Tripoli. No contact has been made with her...

University professor Dr Salem Mohamed Beitelmal was released on 6 June. He had been abducted by local militias on the outskirts of Tripoli since 20 April. He has now returned home and joined his family.

On 20 April, University professor and father of four Dr Salem Mohamed Beitelmal was kidnapped by local militias on the outskirts of Tripoli. His fate and whereabouts remain unknown as the family has not been able to reach him since.

Jabir Zain, an activist residing in Libya, continues to be detained in an unknown location over 100 days following his enforced disappearance by a militia in Tripoli. According to his family, who have been unable to speak with him since his abduction, he has been tortured in detention and is facing...

A Libyan court has sentenced to death nine men, all former members of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi’s regime, including his son Saif al-Islam and head of Military Intelligence Abdallah al-Senussi. The men’s trial was seriously flawed.

A Libyan man seized by US forces in Libya on 15 June is being held incommunicado in US custody at an undisclosed location, possibly a ship. He could face the death penalty in the USA, where he has been charged with alleged participation in an attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi in 2012...

A Libyan man seized by US forces in Libya on 5 October 2013 was detained following a US federal court hearing on 15 October. He is not facing the death penalty, as previously feared, however concerns remain about the inhumane conditions in which he is held.

A Libyan man seized by US forces in Libya on 5 October 2013 is being held and interrogated incommunicado in US military custody. He could also face the death penalty in the USA, where he has been indicted in federal court for his alleged involvement with al-Qa’ida and attacks on US embassies in...

Detained Libyan journalist Amara Abdalla al-Khattabi’s lawyer has been prevented from representing him, in breach of his right to a fair trial. Amara Abdalla al-Khattabi has been on hunger strike since 28 February 2013, and his wife has also begun a hunger strike in protest against his continued...

Libyan newspaper editor Amara Abdalla al-Khatabi, who has been detained incommunicado since 19 December 2012, began a hunger strike on 28 February 2013. His health is deteriorating. The Minister of Justice has called for him to be released on bail.