A visit to Libya by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has reignited hope for long-delayed justice for the victims of a militia that controlled a town during the 2019-2020 battle for Tripoli, the capital, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. “If the Libyan authorities cannot bring a measure of domestic accountability for the horrors against the people of Tarhouna, then the ICC prosecutor should investigate the crimes that fall within the court’s jurisdiction,” said Hanan Salah, associate director at Human Rights Watch. “Relatives of the hundreds who were arbitrarily detained and tortured, or disappeared and later found in mass graves are still waiting for justice.”In November 2022, the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, conducted an official mission to Libya. In Tarhouna, he visited prisons previously operated by an armed group known as al-Kaniyat and the sites of mass graves, and met with families of victims of abuses attributed to al-Kaniyat. The United States, in November 2020, sanctioned Mohamed al-Kani and al-Kaniyat militia under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act for the “killing of civilians, torture, forced disappearances, and displacement of civilians.” Mohamed and Abdulrahim al-Kani are both subject to sanctions by the European Union, since March 2021, for “extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances between 2015 and June 2020 in Tarhouna.” The United Kingdom, in May 2021, also sanctioned al-Kaniyat militia and their leaders Mohamed and Abdulrahim al-Kani for “enforced disappearances, torture, and the killing of civilians in Libya.”“Justice for victims in Tarhouna remains elusive as Libyan authorities struggle to gain custody over those responsible for these crimes,” Salah said.

Human Rights WatchA visit to Libya by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has reignited hope for long-delayed justice for the victims of a militia that controlled a town during the 2019-2020 battle for Tripoli, the capital, Human Rights Watch said today. “Relatives of the hundreds who were arbitrarily detained and tortured, or disappeared and later found in mass graves are still waiting for justice.”The ICC has jurisdiction over war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide committed in Libya since February 15, 2011. In November 2022, the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, conducted an official mission to Libya. Detainees are held in prolonged pre-charge and pre-trial detention, often without access to lawyers or family visits. He said he was held for 10 days at the “Water Factory,” where detainees were held in five tiny box-like cells.

By JAMEY KEATENRussian authorities rejected a price cap on the country's oil set by Ukraine’s Western supporters and threatened Saturday to stop supplying the nations that endorsed it. Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, the United States and the 27-nation European Union agreed Friday to cap what they would pay for Russian oil at $60-per-barrel. The limit is set to take effect Monday, along with an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea. “From this year, Europe will live without Russian oil," Ulyanov tweeted. Russian forces pulled back to the river's eastern bank last month.

Reclaiming a lost half-century in LibyaHafed Al-GhwellLibya's former President Gaddafi listens to national anthems at Bab Azizia Palace in Tripoli. What does a “Libyan state” even look like? That long pre-2011 era did nothing to etch out and formalize the foundations on which a future, stable Libyan state could establish itself regardless of who held power, or even how. Thus, by elevating the local, Libyan municipalities, local councils, community organizations or some other sub-national authorities are better able to temporarily assume the functions of a weak and mostly inept centralized authority. A number of these initiatives include budding efforts at improving local governance as well as engaging civil society’s vast array of complementary expertise and lived experiences to better support overwhelmed municipalities.

Her time in Libya nevertheless turned out to be a "true nightmare", pushing her to turn back. I was afraid to stay in this country, so I continued to the coast, in Sabratha, to travel by sea. Someone forgot about me, and my sister left without me. I left Libya on October 18, 2018. I was so scared of my family's judgment.

Greece has submitted a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres outlining the background of the illegal Turkish-Libyan memorandum. The Permanent Representative of Greece to the UN, Maria Theofili, underlined in the letter that “Greece maintains all its rights under international law and calls on Libya and Turkey to respect the sovereign rights of Greece and to refrain from any move that may violate these rights and destabilizes peace and security in the region.”The letter that was delivered to Guterres on November 17, noted that Greece rejects the new Turkish-Libyan memorandum in the field of hydrocarbons, which is described as “violating the sovereign rights of Greece, is a violation of international law and a deliberate escalation that undermines stability in the region.”Theofili recalls Greece’s self-evident rights (ipso facto and ab initio) in the region, as they are based, among other things, on the agreement demarcating Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) with Egypt. The new Turkish-Libyan memorandum is in complete contradiction with the 2020 Road Map for the resolution of the Libyan conflict, according to which the foreign policy of the Libyan state should be conducted “in a way that preserves the friendly and peaceful relations with regional and international partners and in accordance with the rules of good neighborliness and mutual interests,” the letter noted. Based on this specific provision, but also the previous Turkish-Libyan memorandum, the permanent representative of Greece states in the letter that “an agreement on cooperation in the field of hydrocarbons clearly falls within the framework of agreements whose executive authority is excluded from the their completion.”

Fourteen (14) illegal migrants from Syria, Tunisia and Libya were detained by the Burgas gendarmerie near the Sredets village of Draka, Burgas region, according to Novinite, Sofia News Agency. They were in a private ambulance equipped with medical equipment and a blue warning light, the Agency reported. The ambulance driver, a 31-year-old man from Sofia, was dressed as a paramedic, said Burgas police director Kaloyan Kaloyanov. The ambulance driver is also the owner of the company. The ambulance went from Sofia to the area around Malko Tarnovo, where the migrants were picked up.

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya has contacted local officials in Zintan to inquire about the possibility of hosting a meeting between Parliament Speaker Aqila Saleh and the High Council of State Head Khaled Al-Mishri, the city's mayor, Omran Al-Amiani confirmed. Speaking to a local TV channel, Al-Amiani said the municipality is ready to host the meeting "if" the government of National Unity approves the step. "Internal meetings are the only solution for Libya, with the correct administrative sequence being followed when taking steps to host such meetings," the mayor said. According to several Identical sources, Saleh and Al-Mishri have agreed to hold a meeting next Sunday in Zintan.

The Foreign Minister of the outgoing Government of National Unity (GNU), Najla al-Mangoush, said that the elections are among the priorities of the government, which is striving to be the last transitional government in Libya. “There are challenges we face.. We are not a perfect government, but we are doing our best to pave the way for elections,” al-Mangoush said in a speech at Kings College in London. She pointed out that holding the elections is linked to reaching a constitutional basis, adding that GNU had “done a great job in securing the country compared to previous years, and made an appreciable effort in providing services to the people.”

NEW YORK: India assumed the rotating presidency of the Security Council for the month of December on Thursday, the month New Delhi will also complete its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the 15-nation United Nations body. It is the second time India has held the chair, which rotates on a monthly basis in alphabetical order. She said S. Jaishankar, foreign minister of India, will travel to New York to preside over the debates in the third week of December. In India, she claimed, democracy had roots going back 2,500 years. So the country is the world’s largest democracy.”“Every five years we conduct the world’s largest democratic exercise,” she said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday placed a well-known Russian paramilitary organization on a list of religious freedom violators alongside a number of notorious terrorist organizations. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced he had designated the Wagner Group as an “entity of particular concern" for its activities in the Central African Republic. Friday's designation does not immediately carry U.S. sanctions but opens up those targeted to potential penalties for violations of religious freedom. The Wagner Group and the other “entities of particular concern” are already subject to an array of U.S. sanctions. All of those countries, which Blinken said have “engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom,” have been on the list previously.

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Libya will pay off its debts to Tunisia, amounting to US$ 250 million, before the end of this year. The promise was made by Libyan prime minister Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba during his two-day multi-ministerial visit to the neighbouring country that started Wednesday. Libya’s debt includes US$ 85 million to the electricity sector, US$ 30 million to the civil aviation, and US$ 85 million to health clinics. – He called for the return of Tunisian construction companies and establishments to invest in Libya. Aldabaiba wished the Tunisian people the best in their forthcoming 17 December elections, adding that the stability of Libya and Tunisia pushes the two countries towards progress and prosperity.

The Rivers State governor maintained that the welfare of doctors and other professionals was not primarily the sole reasons for brain drain in the country. Even when some of professionals are employed within Nigeria, Wike insisted that such persons were not provided with the requisite equipment to use in their various organisations and industries. Rivers State, is it not Niger Delta state? Don’t we have riverine areas in Rivers State? The governor maintained that the current congestion experienced at the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital (RSUTH) was being addressed.

File- Aguila Saleh, Libya's parliament president, speaks during the first session at parliament headquarters in Benghazi, Libya April 13, 2019. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-FetoriCAIRO – 2 December 2022: “Egypt is the best supporter of the Libyan people,” said Aguila Saleh, the Speaker of the Libyan Parliament, on Friday. In comments to the Cairo News channel, Saleh added that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi strongly stands by Libya and its peopleHe continued Libyans should choose who will rule them, stressing that foreign mercenaries must leave Libyan territory. Saleh, who is visiting, said that there is a “great understanding” with Khaled Al-Mashri, President of the Supreme Council of State, to reconfigure the sovereign institutions affiliated with the House of Representatives, pointing out that this matter will be decided in the coming days, Al Sharq Al Awsat reported on FridayHe also revealed that a unified authority in Libya will be formed.