The U.S. Embassy in Libya on Monday voiced deep concern over alleged abuses against migrants in Libya and vowed to use its powers to hold perpetrators accountable.
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“Nothing prevents Libya from holding elections this year except for lack of political will or unwillingness to compromise among key leaders,” said Barbara Leaf, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs on Thursday.
United States and Libyan authorities should clarify the legal basis for the abusive arrest and subsequent extradition to the US of a Libyan suspect in the 1988 deadly airplane bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, Human Rights Watch said today.
The arraignment of a Libyan intelligence operative suspected of making the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 and killed 270 people was deferred on Wednesday due to delays and challenges securing a defense attorney.
The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, made a surprise visit to Libya today, where he met with Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh in Tripoli.
Special envoys from the US, France, Germany, Italy and the UK are due to meet in Washington on Friday, January 13, to discuss their next steps after Libya’s House of Representatives and High Council of State last week failed to reach a final agreement in Cairo on the constitutional basis for national elections.
Speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, and chairman of the High Council of State, Khaled Al-Mishri, achieved a breakthrough in today’s negotiations in Cairo over the constitutional basis for elections, which “leaves no reason to delay setting an early date for parliamentary and presidential elections,” according to the United States.
The United States government has declined to establish a Libyan Libyan consulate in Houston, Texas for the time being, according to multiple press reports
The arrest of Abu Agila Masoud Al-Marimi, a former Libyan intelligence operative, has been described by the U.S. Attorney-General Merrick Garland as a “milestone on the path to justice” for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
Amnesty International has criticized the handover of Abu Agila Masoud Al-Marimi, a former Libyan intelligence operative, to the U.S. where he faces charges over alleged involvement in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.