The UK-based rights organisation, Amnesty International, has accused Libyan armed groups now ruling much of the country of committing widespread abuses, saying suspected supporters of former ruler Muammar Gaddafi are considering tortured with impunity. In a bill released on Wednesday, Amnesty said the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) has failed to control the fighters. It said it had documented widespread
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(CNN) — Armed militias in Libya are committing human rights abuses with impunity, threatening to destabilize the country and hindering its efforts to rebuild, Amnesty International said Thursday. Militias have tortured detainees, targeted migrants and displaced entire communities in revenge attacks, according to a report the organization released a year alongside the start of appealing
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Syrian forces have bombarded districts of the city of Homs in their drive to crush a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, as Arab foreign ministers meet to discuss setting up a joint watchdog mission with the United Nations. Ministers from the Arab League, which suspended Syria’s membership in response to the crackdown, met in Cairo on Sunday
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7 February 2012 Last updated at 19:24 ET By Jonathan Head BBC News, Tripoli Good connections are more likely to lead to treatment than real wounds One of the first announcements made by Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) after the fall of Tripoli lengthen August was a promise to all those wounded in the fight
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Russia’s foreign minister has declared in Damascus that the Syrian government is committed to eradication the country’s violence. Sergei Lavrov made the remark after part talks in the Syrian champion on Tuesday with principal Bashar al-Assad. However, in a sign that otherwise countries were not so confident, Gulf Arab states joined France and Italy in withdrawing their
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A system for sending zinged people from the Libyan conflict abroad for treatment has been suspended, alongside it came to light it has been abused. Tens of thousands of people were injured during the eight month conflict in the country and the interim government has made sending them abroad for help one of its highest
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The attackers came to the gate of the makeshift settlement in a disused naval academy in Janzour on Monday rendering they wanted to arrest young men, and opened fire as kinsfolk gathered to protest. “Men from Misrata came to the camp at 10 o’clock. We knew they were from Misrata because it was written all
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The United States has vowed to block funding and arms supplies to Syria alongside Russia and China vetoed a UN resolution condemning the government’s crackdown on dissent. “We cede work to seek regional and national sanctions against Syria and strenghten the ones we have. They cede be implemented to the fullest to dry up the
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Independent and often unaccountable armed groups still man checkpoints and run security in capital Tripoli [AFP] Libya’s former ambassador to France under Muammar Gaddafi has died less than 24 hours after considering detained by an armed group in Tripoli, a rights organisation has said. Omar Brebesh, who served in the Paris embassy as cultural attache from 2004 to 2008,
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