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A general view of Lake Gaberoun, a salty water oasis in the Wadi al-Hayaa and Sabha district, in southwestern Libya, 16 March 2013, ABDULLAH DOMA/AFP/Getty Images

Libyan journalist Moussa Abdel Karim abducted and killed in Sabha

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

United Nations' special envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, answers journalists' questions during a visit to the Abu Salim detention centre for illegal migrants in Tripoli, Libya, 19 May 2016, MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images

New rules put journalists’ lives in danger in Libya

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

Photojournalists take pictures as a Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) official shows them a scrap of a prison uniform found at Tripoli's notorious Abu Salim prison, 25 September 2011, LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images

Seven years after its revolution, Libya is losing its journalists

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.

Visitors visit the book pavilion during a cultural festival held under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture in Benghazi, Libya, 11 January 2016, REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Libyan writers, editors fear for their lives over newly published literary collection

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.

Prime Minister of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez Seraj (3rd R) prays with people next to the dead bodies of members of forces loyal to the U.N.-backed government, in Tripoli, 27 May 2017, REUTERS/Hani Amara

Libyan activists face threats, harassment, attacks at hands of armed group

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.

People pose around a poster of journalists Nadhir Ktari (L, in poster) and Sofiane Chourabi, who went missing in Libya in September, during a demonstration over their disappearance, in Tunis January 9, 2015, REUTERS/Anis Mili

Tunisian journalists missing in Libya reported killed

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.

People pose around a poster of journalists Nadhir Ktari (L, in poster) and Sofiane Chourabi, who went missing in Libya in September, during a demonstration over their disappearance, in Tunis January 9, 2015, REUTERS/Anis Mili

Tunisian journalists missing in Libya reported killed

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, Jeroen Oerlemans/Facebook

Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans killed in Libya

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, Jeroen Oerlemans/Facebook

Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans killed in Libya

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.

This 21 June 2011 photo by Abdelqadir Fassouk shows Libyan rebels firing their weapons towards pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces in Misrata, Libya, AP/Abdelqadir Fassouk

Second Libyan photojournalist killed in a month

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

Colonel Al-Mahdi al-Barghathi, Minister of Defense in the Government of National Accord, speaks during a news conference in Benghazi, Libya June 4, 2016, REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Libyan journalists lack protection, face rising violence

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.

People pose around a poster of journalists Nadhir Ktari (L, in poster) and Sofiane Chourabi, who went missing in Libya in September, during a demonstration over their disappearance, in Tunis January 9, 2015, REUTERS/Anis Mili

Tunisian journalists missing in Libya: Seventeen months of radio silence

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.

Link to: Libyan militias responsible for 31 attacks on journalists in 2015

Libyan militias responsible for 31 attacks on journalists in 2015

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's acting head of state Agila Saleh Essa Gwaider addresses attendees during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York, September 30, 2015., REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Libya moves towards abolishing criminal defamation laws

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.

People pose around a poster of journalists Nadhir Ktari (L, in poster) and Sofiane Chourabi, who went missing in Libya in September, during a demonstration over their disappearance, in Tunis January 9, 2015, REUTERS/Anis Mili

One year on: Tunisian journalists still missing in Libya

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.

Link to: Missing Tunisian journalists in Libya presumed dead

Missing Tunisian journalists in Libya presumed dead

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.