A climate of fear : eastern Libya s military courts convicted hundreds in sham trials, Amnesty International says al-monitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from al-monitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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April 26, 2021 by archyde
Libyan women sing slogans at a demonstration in Tripoli on March 8, 2019 against General Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces. REUTERS / Ismail Zitouny
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guilty of hundreds of civilians in eastern Libya on
secret and blatantly unfair trials held before military courts and aimed at punishing opponents and critics, or alleged opponents and critics, of the
Libyan Arab Armed Forces and groups affiliated with them. This was stated by Amnesty International today. Between 2018 and 2021,
at least 22 people were sentenced to death, and hundreds more to
prison sentences. Many of the accused were subjected to torture and other ill-treatment when they were in
Zones of anarchy: Inside the chaos and depravity of Libya’s long civil war While there is relative calm in Tripoli, in Benghazi a tumultuous and bloody reordering is taking place. All mass graves are not the same, and the hundreds of pits behind Issa Haroudah’s farmhouse outside of Tarhuna, about an hour’s drive south of Tripoli, are distinctive because of their orderliness. They stretch like a marker-less cemetery across his land, between his almond groves. The men who carved this atrocity into the fine red Libyan sand did not rush. Some of the graves contain single bodies, others families. There are signs of torture on the corpses and some have been bound and blindfolded.
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April 12, 2021 at 1:10 pm | Published in: Africa, Libya, News
Self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) Chief of Staff, Khalifa Haftar arrives for a conference on Libya on 12 November 2018 [FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images] April 12, 2021 at 1:10 pm
Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar confirmed that three cities with full facilities will be built east, west and south of Benghazi, to accommodate at least 12 million people.
Haftar revealed the allocation of 20,000 housing units to the families of the martyrs and injured people, as well as providing jobs for their children after their rehabilitation, stating that the General Command Forces will cover education fees for their children until university, while prioritising their families for Hajj and Umrah trips.