press releaseBeirut — Grim Decade for Human RightsJustice remains elusive and impunity rampant a decade after the United Nations Security Council referred the situation in Libya to the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Human Rights Watch said today. "After a decade of impunity for serious crimes, the wheels of justice set in motion by the Security Council's referral of Libya to the ICC seem to have come to a grinding halt," said Hanan Salah, senior Libya researcher at Human Rights Watch. The ICC prosecutor has said that securing these arrests continues to be one of her office's greatest challenges. The UN Human Rights Council on June 22, 2020 established a fact-finding body to investigate violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by all parties to the Libya conflict since the beginning of 2016. Human Rights Watch has called on President Joe Biden to repeal ICC sanctions and work constructively with the court.

Source: Libya Today February 25, 2021 09:56 UTC