UN Special Adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, said she met with Sergey Vershinin, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, on Tuesday in Moscow, where they reviewed the situation in Libya and had “in-depth consultations on the challenges facing the electoral process”.
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Libyan Wings Airlines, owned by Islamist Abdel Hakim Belhaj, will announce the suspension of all its flights in the next few weeks, sources from the Civil Aviation Authority told Libya Update.
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Amendment of Law 2 on granting lifelong political passports to members of the Libyan Parliament, their wives and children, had been issued by the former Speaker-Designate, Fawzi al-Nuwairi, and bears his signature, media sources reported.
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Libyan Parliament Speaker Aqila Saleh confirmed Tuesday that deputies who are absent from sessions from now on are considered obstructionists and careless.
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Libya’s House of Representatives has suspended its session today which was dedicated to discussing forming a political roadmap for the country after the postponement of the elections.
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A new lawsuit filed before the International Criminal Court (ICC) would implicates the Libyan authorities in crimes against humanity over systematic abuse of migrants, while also holding italy and Malta accountable as alleged accomplices, Italian newspaper Avvenire reports.
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Over 12,000 detainees are held officially in 27 prisons and detention facilities across Libya and thousands more are held illegally and often in “inhumane conditions in facilities controlled by armed groups or `secret’ facilities,” the United Nations chief said in a new report.
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885 new people tested positive for COVID-19, marking 15 percent of the infection rate, according to a Tuesday report by the National Center for Disease Control in Libya (NCDC).
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Hussein Al-Qatrani, the Deputy Prime Minister, held talks on Tuesday with Justice Minister Halima Ibrahim regarding prison reforms in Benghazi.
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Khaled al-Mishri, chairman of Libya’s High Council of State, met today with Sabadell Jose, the European Union’s Ambassador to Libya, in Tripoli where they discussed “the latest developments related to the electoral process,” according to a brief statement by the council.
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