UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said it is “concerned by the ongoing harassment, restrictions, and violence targeting lawyers, including the brutal 18 July beating of lawyer, Abdullah Ali Farahat in the Tripoli Court by Deterrence Apparatus for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism’ (DACOT) guards.”
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U.S. Special Envoy and Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland said Saturday’s clashes in Misrata demonstrate the dangerous prospect that the recent violence will escalate.
The Libyan Prime Minister, Fathi Bashagha, said Sunday that the great popular movement in support of the Libyan government in the East, South and West gives us hope that “the brave national spirit will triumph over the gang of corruption that thought it could buy home with “haram” money.”
UN Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, said Friday fighting between armed groups in Tripoli “must stop now, civilians must be protected and perpetrators held accountable.”
Libyan Parliament Speaker Aqila Saleh affirmed that the Parliament did not disrupt the holding of the elections, noting that it did everything necessary for holding the elections.
UN Support Mission in Libyan UNSMIL’s Human Rights and Rule of Law team met with the Abu Salim victims’ association Wednesday “to discuss victim-centered transitional justice measures and national calls for accountability for the 1996 mass killing of more than 1,200 detainees in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli,” according to UNSMIL.
A fresh batch of 143 stranded Nigerian returnees from Libya, Tuesday, arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Chief of General Staff in the Libyan Western Region, Lieutenant-General Mohamed al-Haddad, and Chief of General Staff in the Eastern Region, Lieutenant-General Abdel Razek al-Nadori, said that the two-day meetings in Tripoli came with approval of the country’s political authorities.
UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has welcomed the meeting of the Libyan military commanders in the East and West in Tripoli on 18 and 19 July.
Outgoing Libyan Prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh has admitted that he had made a deal to re-form the board of directors of the National Oil Corporation in exchange for solving the problem of the suspension of oil exports, in agreement with all the members of the new council who hail from different regions such as Zintan, Misrata, the South, Benghazi and the Oil Crescent region.