Full Coverage: Libya

15.04.2008 Saudi Arabia had the highest number of executions per capita, followed by Iran and Libya, according to a new Amnesty survey that says 88 per cent of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the US.

07.11.2007 Nepal, Maldives and Libya have been removed from the annual list of Internet enemies, which Reporters Without Borders publishes today. But Egypt has been added to the roll of shame for its harassment and imprisonment of many bloggers.

15.08.2007 Despite Libya's recent promise to abolish the death penalty, 12 men have been arrested for planning a peaceful demonstration and may now face the death sentence.
From: Human Rights Watch

24.07.2007 Libya's release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor - jailed in 1999 for allegedly infecting 393 children with HIV - has been welcomed by the International Trade Union Confederation.

24.07.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 23 (OneWorld) - Human rights organizations are reacting coldly to President George W. Bush's executive order forbidding the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from torturing, humiliating, or abusing detainees in its once-secret interrogation program.

01.06.2007 The UN refugee agency has protested to the European Commission about the way boatloads of people from North Africa have recently been left stranded at sea, despite being in distress and at risk of death.

20.12.2006 The confirmation of Libya's decision to convict five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor of infecting child patients with the HIV virus is a global medical disaster, says Michel Thieren.

15.02.2006 Arms are flowing into the conflict-ridden Darfur region from neighbouring Chad, Eritrea and Libya, according to a report by UN experts.

09.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 9 (OneWorld) - United Nations experts are urging Sudan's neighbors to stop arms smuggling into the war-wrecked country. The move comes as advocates press the U.S. government to use its leadership of the UN Security Council to calm the killing fields of Darfur.

09.12.2004 "The United States and European Union have rewarded Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi and the Libyan government for renouncing terrorism and weapons of mass destruction ... but internal repression remains intense," said a human rights group whose team of fact finders were denied visas to enter the country.

23.11.2004 A convoy of trucks over a kilometer long is carrying U.S.-donated food aid through the Libyan desert to over 200,000 Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad. Sudanese government and rebel representatives have welcomed the announcement that a UN peacekeeping force will be sent to Sudan as soon as a peace deal is finalized.

07.10.2004 The forcible deportation to Libya by Italy of hundreds of immigrants from Africa and the Middle East over the last several days is drawing protests from the United Nations and Amnesty International.

26.07.2004 Like other Arabs, Libyans are not very receptive to U.S. foreign policy “because of the bias toward Israel” but they are very positive about Americans, says Carah Ong, Communications Director for the California-based Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Even though they do not like America’s global dominance, Libyans are willing to make concessions and work with the U.S. because they believe America will not dominate the world forever and, also because they believe American citizens are victims of the American empire.

28.04.2004 Barely days after the U.S. lifted all sanctions against his country, Libya's Muammar Gadaffi is meeting with the European Commission President and the Belgian Prime Minister in Brussels this week. Experts on Middle East affairs trace his journey back to the international arena and why leaders of western nations are pleased about it.

27.04.2004 Amnesty international has released a new report detailing the organisations findings on its first visit to Libya 15 years ago. The report -- released on the day of Libyan leader Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi's visit to the European Commission in Brussels, his first to Europe in 15 years -- reveals a pattern of on-going human rights violations, a continuing failure to investigate and resolve past abuses, and a climate of fear in which most Libyans are afraid to raise concerns over current and past violations.

27.04.2004 Libya needs a comprehensive programme of reform to address human rights concerns, warns Amnesty International in a new report. The Libyan leader Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi made his first visit to Europe in 15 years on 26 April.

26.04.2004 Defense experts believe that chances that nuclear security procedures will be breached are higher in Pakistan, because of the problem of Islamic fundamentalism, than in North Korea or Libya where the risk of political destabilization are lower. The Bush administration's counter proliferation policy is more lenient on Pakistan than the latter two countries, and analysts argue that the implication is that the U.S. is penalizing the wrong states.

22.04.2004 The UK government is at risk of undermining its arms policy by pushing for the lifting of the EU arms embargo on Libya, Oxfam has said. The embargo lift is part of a package of measures designed to reward Libya for abandoning its WMD programmes.

12.03.2004 The UK government is secretly pressing for the European Union to relax its embargo on British companies selling arms to Libya, according to a report in the The Scotsman.

10.03.2004 The UK authorities’ decision to challenge a judgement by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission that the case for detaining a Libyan man as a “suspected international terrorist” was “not established” amounts to persecution, said Amnesty International.