Libya

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has expressed “horror” at the death by torture of Libyan writer and journalist Daif Al Ghazal, who wrote articles critical of the regime for the London-based online newspaper “Libya Al-Youm”. His body was found on 2 June 2005. “We share the shock of his ‘Libya Al-Youm’ colleagues and his family’s grief, and […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has reiterated its call for the immediate release of former bookseller Abdel Razak Al Mansouri, saying he is almost certainly being held because of his articles on the Internet criticising the Libyan regime. Al Mansouri is officially charged with unauthorised possession of a pistol. “This man’s imprisonment is arbitrary even if you […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has urged foreign embassies in Tripoli to ask the Libyan authorities what has happened to bookseller and cyber-dissident Abdel Razak Al Mansouri, who has disappeared without a trace since his 12 January 2005 arrest. Al Mansouri was reportedly arrested for mocking a speech by President Muammar Gaddafi in an article he sent […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has called for the release of cyber-dissident Abdel Razak Al Mansouri, whose arrest on 12 January 2005 has just been reported. He criticised the Libyan government on a United Kingdom (UK)-based website. There has been no word of him since his detention. “The authorities already control all the traditional media and now […]

(Human Rights Watch/IFEX) – The following is a Human Rights Watch press release: Libya Blocks Visit by Rights Group Torture, Political Trials, Treatment of Migrants Remain Major Concerns (New York, December 7, 2004) – The Libyan government has blocked a scheduled visit by a Human Rights Watch research team. The team was slated to begin […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is a 1 October 2004 RSF press release: French foreign minister asked to raise press freedom during visit Reporters Without Borders wrote to French foreign minister Michel Barnier today reminding him of the extremely grave press freedom violations in Libya and asking him to raise them with Libyan government representatives during […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has reiterated its call for press freedom in Libya after the government daily “Al-Zahf al-Akhdar” (“The Green Step”) was suspended for one week on 27 January 2004 for suggesting that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi should no longer be referred to as the “guide of the revolution” and should instead start behaving as a […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has asked the Libyan authorities for more information about the suspension of the official newspaper “Al-Zahf Al-Akhdar” (“The Green Step”). The Standing Revolutionary Court suspended the daily on 13 October 2003 for having “damaged national interests and harmed Libya’s position”, Agence France-Presse reported. RSF asked officials to explain the reasons for the […]

(RSF/IFEX) – According to RSF, on 19 March 1998, the daily newspaper “Al-Zahf al-Akhdar” was banned indefinitely. The decision was made because of “articles attacking fraternal Arab states and friendly countries.” “Al-Zahf al-Akhdar” is also accused of “deviation from the revolutionary orientation which governs the media.” All the staff of the newspaper were suspended at […]

The whereabouts and well-being of Sudanese translator Abdelrahman Ali Gaily continue to remain a mystery. In 1982, Gaily was offered a job at the International Centre of Research in Tripoli, Libya, as translator of the “Green Book”, written by Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi and which is his political and socio-economic theory. In April 1983, Gaily’s wife, […]