| 5,636,458 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
On around the 26 March 2004, a civil engineer was reportedly beaten outside his house for calling for reform within Libya. |
| 5,636,463 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
A sub-Saharan African arrested for drug possession in May 2004 said the police held him in the Geria police station for three days without food or water. Then interrogators hung him for four hours with his hands behind his back. They put an iron rod behind his back and beat him with a cable on the legs. |
| 5,636,467 |
24.16667 |
23.26962 |
Libya |
|
In June 2004, many of the Eritreans and Ethiopians in a prison in Kufra revolted over the lack of food, throwing objects at the guards. |
| 5,636,470 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
Unknown individuals tried to set the Tripoli house of a political prisoner on fire on May 23, but a family member was able to douse the flame. |
| 5,636,476 |
32.11766 |
20.12928 |
Libya |
|
A journalist was stopped and taken by two armed men allegedly from the Internal Security Agency. The authorities found his decomposing body with signs of torture and a gunshot to the head on the outskirts of Benghazi on June 2. The Secretary of Justice blamed the abduction and murder on unknown kidnappers who posed as security personnel. |
| 5,636,479 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
On June 28, 2005 hundreds of youths protested against an end to the al-Qadhafi-led government in Tripoli. |
| 5,636,483 |
32.85 |
13.16667 |
Libya |
|
Around the 22nd October 2005, 135 prisoners in Abu Salim prison reportedly staged a protest to demand that their cases get retried. |
| 5,636,488 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
In November 2005, in protest at government interference in the work of the official lawyers union, more than one hundred Libyan lawyers tried to meet at the unions headquarters in Tripoli. When the authorities denied them entrance, the lawyers held an impromptu meeting outside, issuing a strongly worded statement that criticized the governments interference in the unions affairs. |
| 5,636,492 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
More than 100 relatives of HIV infected children, demanding the death sentence for the defendants, clashed with riot police outside the Supreme Court, apparently after a police officer pushed a female protester to the ground. The crowd attacked diplomats observing the trial, forcing them back into the court. |
| 5,636,496 |
32.8925 |
13.18 |
Libya |
|
Relatives of HIV infected children protested a court ruling at Green Square in central Tripoli. Some set fire to tires and clashed with police. Four demonstrators were arrested. |
