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Libya is divided between the UN-recognised Tripoli-based government in the west and a rival administration led by military strongman Khalifa Haftar in the east. The eastern-based parliament said in a statement on Saturday night that it was "following with great concern the disappearance of Ibrahim Al Dirsi, representative of the city of Benghazi" without specifying when he had gone missing
On the afternoon of June 25, 2014, lawyer and human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis from the city of Benghazi in eastern Libya, called on her citizens, through live television and social media, to...
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2021-07-18 07:30:30 GMT2021-07-18 15:30:30(Beijing Time) Xinhua English TRIPOLI, July 17 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Saturday called on the Libyan authorities to investigate the kidnapping of Siham Sergewa, a member of the Libyan House of Representatives (parliament). "Today marks 2 years of the violent abduction and enforced disappearance of Member of Parliament, Siham Sergewa, from her home in Benghazi. UNSMIL renews its calls on national authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into this matter to establish her fate and whereabouts and ...
Since the early popular rallies in Benghazi on 15 February 2011, women played a crucial role in the revolution that toppled Libyan long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi. Whether by helping organise and joining daily demonstrations, providing medical aid to those wounded, smuggling ammunitions, selling their jewellery to fund rebel fighters or cooking meals for frontline units, they supported and led the uprising. It was their revolution too. "Something many forget is the Libyan revolution was started by women," Hajer Sharief, a human rights advocate and co-founder of Together We Build It (TWBI), a ...