Libya

Moussa Abdel Karim, who worked for the Sabha-based newspaper Fasaniah, was abducted by criminal gangs on July 31, 2018, and was later murdered.

RSF calls on Libya’s Government of National Accord to stop obstructing and endangering foreign journalists and Libyan journalists who work for international media.

The crisis for press freedom in Libya has reached an unprecedented level seven years after the country’s revolution as journalists continue to flee the country.

The writers and editors included in the literary collection Sun on Closed Windows have received death threats, insults and have been the target of hate speech. Fearing for their lives, some are currently in hiding with their families.

Militias and other armed groups with a ‘with-us-or-against-us’ mindset have gone after activists, bloggers, and media workers, driving many to flee the country and chilling speech for everyone else, said HRw. “The Government of National Accord should hold armed groups, especially those aligned with it, accountable.

A Libyan detainee believed to be a member of the group said in an interview aired on Saturday on private channel Libya Al-Hadath that he had witnessed the execution of Sofiène Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari in the eastern port city of Derna in 2015.

A Libyan detainee believed to be a member of the group said in an interview aired on Saturday on private channel Libya Al-Hadath that he had witnessed the execution of Sofiène Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari in the eastern port city of Derna in 2015.

Dutch freelance photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans was killed today in the Libyan city of Sirte while covering clashes between Islamic State fighters and forces loyal to the Libyan Army.

Dutch freelance photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans was killed today in the Libyan city of Sirte while covering clashes between Islamic State fighters and forces loyal to the Libyan Army.

Death of Abdelqadir Fassouk is a reminder of terrible price journalists in Libya are paying to do their jobs.

The latest acts of violence against journalists in Libya include the murder of freelancer reporter Khaled Al Zantani by an ISIS sniper on 23 June in Benghazi.

There has been no information about the fate of Sofiane Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari in the 17 months since their disappearance in eastern Libya while on assignment for Tunisia’s First TV.

The Libyan state’s disintegration and the failure to punish those responsible for such crimes has created a climate of violence that is extremely dangerous for the right to information.

Libya has accepted 14 recommendations directly related to free expression, including the repeal of all laws which criminalise defamation, libel and slander, and a commitment to bring all restrictions on freedom of expression in line with the standards set out in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Libyan President Beji Caied Essebssi agreed to a civil society proposal that the anniversary of their disappearance, 8 of September, should be celebrated in Tunisia as National Day for the Protection of Journalists.

Officials from the internationally recognized Libyan government said in a statement on April 29, 2015, that two Tunisian journalists who had been missing in eastern Libya since September 2014 had been killed.