The Ministry of Defense organizes a workshop entitled (Critical Reading of the Anti-Terrorism Law)

Tripoli, December 4, 2023 (LANA) - A legal workshop was held, Monday, in Tripoli, entitled, (A critical and analytical reading of Law No. (3) of 2014 regarding combating terrorism) organized by the Ministry of Defense, within the framework of preparations for the international conference on the role of the military judiciary in combating the phenomenon of Terrorism scheduled to be held in January next year.

A number of law professors in various specializations from the universities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Misrata, Sebha, Derna, Nalut, Zintan, Zaytouna, and Bani Walid, as well as a number of advisors and members of the General Authority of Military Justice, heads and prosecutors of the Military Public Prosecutor’s Office, and advisors to the Tripoli Court of Appeal, participated in the workshop activities.

The Chair of the Conference Preparatory Committee welcomed the conference participants, stressing that the workshop constitutes an opportunity for cooperation and strengthening communication between jurists and academics in reforming laws, including the Anti-Terrorism Law, the subject of the workshop.

The scientific sessions in the workshop focused on three axes, which included critical and analytical readings of Law No. (3) of 2014 regarding combating terrorism, in terms of the substantive provisions of the law, including drafting and legislative style, punishment and precautionary measures, and the procedural provisions of this law.

The research papers and interventions shed light on the problems of the concept and texts in the anti-terrorism law, the juvenile provisions in the law, criminal liability, precautionary measures, the protection system and in the terrorism law, and the extent to which the Libyan anti-terrorism law is compatible with international legitimacy.

And Dr. Zahra Tibar, Dean of the School of Human Sciences at the Libyan Academy for Postgraduate Studies and Head of the Scientific Committee of the Conference, said in a statement to the Libyan News Agency that the workshop is being held to prepare for the activities of the conference that will begin in January. This conference deals with Law No. (3) of 2014 regarding combating terrorism.

She added that Law No. (3) regarding combating terrorism needs to be reconsidered and adapted to suit the needs of society and the state, and the conference seeks to define the legal framework for the issue of terrorism and discuss the shortcomings or deficiencies in Law No. (3).

She revealed that the Scientific Committee, in cooperation with a group of legal elites in Libya, developed the brochure for the conference and set a date to receive the researchers’ abstracts. We found a very large turnout from more than 120 local and international figures to participate and present their research at the conference, and 58 of them were accepted.

For his part, the head of the General Authority for Military Justice, Brigadier General Abdul Salam Ben Gharbia, told the Libyan News Agency, on the sidelines of the workshop, that the purpose of the conference that we seek to hold is to correct the judicial and legislative path, raise the problems of Law No. (3) of 2014 to combat terrorism, and amend and formulate it in line with With the Libyan character to address the problems inside Libya.

  Director of the International Support Department at the Ministry of Defense, Brigadier Fouad Ahneesh, believes that the Libyan anti-terrorism law needs to be reformulated and reinterpreted for jurists themselves and for citizens, noting that the conference is an excellent initiative for jurists and the military judiciary is interested in these topics, and we hope that this event will achieve what it hopes for. .

For her part, Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Benghazi, Dr. Jazia Ashayter, in a statement to the Libyan News Agency on the sidelines of the workshop, said that the workshop is very promising in terms of organization, the papers presented, the division of sessions, and the workshop program.

She added that her intervention was regarding the problem of the concept of terrorism, and the Faculty of Law at the University of Benghazi had previously been exposed to the terrorism law since its issuance, and ten years after the issuance of the law, it was good for it to be highlighted again.

Dr. Shaiter confirmed that the topics discussed in the workshop will be useful to decision makers, and perhaps the most important recommendation will be to ask the House of Representatives to request the legislative authority to form a committee to reconsider Law No. (3) of 2014, perhaps amending some of its texts to ensure more effectiveness of this law.

..(LANA)..