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The Ministry of Justice announces hand over of a body found in the Tarhuna cemetery to its family.
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Tripoli, 12 November, 2020 (Lana) -- The Ministry of Justice announced Thursday that the body that had been found in a mass grave in Tarhuna was handed over to its family. The ministry explained in a post on its website that the body belonged to the citizen "Ayad Emaar Salem al-Da'i" and was found in a cemetery and was handed over today to its relatives at the headquarters of the Forensic Medicine in Tripoli after being identified through the clothes and markings of the body and the necessary sampling. It added that the process of handing over the body was carried out by the... Read more
EU Mission in Libya Condemns Assassination of Lawyer and Human Rights Activist Hanan Al Bar'asi.
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Tripoli, 12 November 2020(Lana) The EU Mission in Libya has condemned the assassination of Lawyer and Human Rights Activist Hanan Al Bar'asi in Benghazi on Tuesday, calling on Libyan authorities to open a credible enquiry into the crime and to bring perpetrators to justice. 'The assassination of Al Ba'asi aims to stifle independent voices an threatens the peace process and efforts to restore stability in the country, the Mission said in a statement. The EU stands alongside the majority of Libyans rejecting violence and terror and opposed to human rights violations and ... Read more
Supreme Judiciary Council Against Quota System.
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Tripoli, 12 November 2020(Lana) The Supreme Judiciary Council has stressed in a statement the importance on full independence of the judiciary and rules of selection to judicial posts. The statement, issued in reaction to deliberations underway in Tunis over the judiciary, said they reject any system of quota for the judiciary that may come out of the Tunis meeting. The Council said it would not stand idle as judicial power being shared in way that neither the law nor traditions support. =... Read more
Rescue of a boat carrying 65 migrants off the coast of Libya.
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Palermo, November 12, 2020 (LANA) - The (Open Arms) humanitarian organization announced the rescue of a boat carrying 65 migrants at sea off the coast of Libya. Yesterday, the Spanish non-governmental organization said its volunteers rescued 100 migrants who ended up in the sea after the water seeped into the boat they were trying to cross the sea in, leading to the loss of the lives of six of them, including a six-month-old baby. The organization stated in a tweet on Twitter on Thursday, "The body of the infant was taken to the forensic department on the island of... Read more
The UN mission warns of a "forged" document attributed to the Forum for Political Dialogue in Tunis.
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Tripoli, November 12, 2020 (LANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya warned Wednesday evening about a forged document attributed to the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum currently taking place in Tunis. "This document is forged and is not issued by the mission or the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum," the mission said in a press release published on its official website. The statement warned against "fraud and misinformation aimed at disrupting the course of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum". The mission statement affirmed that "any information... Read more