Lana News
Libyan News Agency
Latest News
LANA The House of Representatives suspends its session until tomorrow, Tuesday.
LANA Al-Menfi meets with the General Union of Libyan Students
LANA The Audit Bureau discusses the Emergency Medicine Center's responses to the 2023 audit results.
LANA Norland announces his retirement from the diplomatic service at the end of May.
LANA The National Unity Government condemns the leaked footage showing MP Ibrahim Al-Darsi in humiliating detention conditions, and calls for an international investigation.
LANA The Arab Parliamentary Union affirms its support for the Libyan people's demands for elections as soon as possible.
LANA Widespread anticipation in Libya for the Advisory Committee's recommendations on the electoral framework.
LANA The House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee stresses the need to reform the status of diplomatic missions abroad to reduce public spending.
LANA The House of Representatives participate in the Palestine Committee meeting as part of the Arab Parliamentary Union conference in Algeria.
LANA Al-Menfi arrives in Tripoli after a medical trip abroad

The closing statement of the Press Freedom Day celebration expresses deep concern over the restrictions on freedom of opinion and the Libyan press.

Pulbished on:

Tripoli, May 4, 2025 (LANA) - The General Syndicate of Libyan Journalists - Tripoli and the Western Region - expressed its deep concern over the increasing pressure on freedom of opinion and the press in Libya, and the threats faced by Libyan journalists and bloggers...and all those with a dissenting opinion, through kidnapping, threats, and interrogations without regard for the laws that protect the freedom and dignity of journalists, their right to express their opinions and views, and their pursuit of information and dissemination.

This came in the closing statement of the celebration organized yesterday, Saturday, by the Journalists Syndicate on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, in the presence of Abdullah Al-Lafi, a member of the Presidential Council, the President of the Supreme Council of State and the Minister of Economy in the Government of National Unity, a representative from the Office of the Attorney General, and a large gathering of journalists from various press institutions and the independent press.

In their statement, the journalists declared their solidarity with every journalist who has been or is being threatened, intimidated, or subjected to coercive measures. They called on the competent authorities to commit to first filing a complaint against any journalist with the Syndicate, and for the Syndicate to be present through a representative in any legal summons or investigation. Anything other than that is considered null and void and in violation of the law.

The statement called on journalists to unite within their Syndicate to form a pressure group to defend the profession, its institutions, and its workers. They called on journalists in the private media, especially those working abroad, to make the homeland their ultimate goal, its unity their aim, and the culmination of their efforts and work, and its elevation their endeavor.

At the end of the statement, the journalists affirmed their solidarity with their fellow journalists everywhere and their support for a constructive and responsible media that celebrates all progress achieved by humanity and despises any call or act of violence, racism, war, injustice, and oppression.

...(LANA)...