A/HRC/19/58
Urgent appeal
Yes (4)
Government response
No
General allegation
N/A
Government response
N/A
Prompt intervention letter
N/A
Government response
N/A
Working Group request for a visit
Yes
Invitation extended
No
376. All outstanding cases were retransmitted and, regrettably, no response was received. A
summary of the situation in the country appears in E/CN.4/2006/56 and Corr. 1.
Urgent actions
377. The Working Group transmitted one case under its urgent action procedure. The case
concerned Mr. Salem al Ragoubi Salem Mohamed, who was allegedly abducted from his
home in Tripoli by around twenty members of the Internal Security Services, on 28 June
2011.
Urgent Appeals
378. The Working Group transmitted four communications under its urgent appeals
procedure.
379. The first communication was transmitted on 23 February 2011, jointly with six other
special procedures mechanisms, concerning the reported deaths of at least 233 people and
the excessive use of force against protesters by security forces in the context of the
demonstrations, which had taken place across the country since 15 February 2011. More
specifically, it was reported that four brothers, Messrs. Al Mahdi Saleh Hmeed, Sadek
Saleh Hmeed, Ali Saleh Hmeed, and Fredj Saleh Hmeed, were allegedly arrested in their
home in Tripoli and taken to an undisclosed location by the Libyan security forces, on 16
February 2011.
380. On 4 March 2011, sources informed that the four brothers had been released.
381. The second communication was transmitted on 14 March 2011, jointly with four other
special procedures mechanisms, concerning Messrs. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and Andrei
Netto, who were reportedly abducted by Government forces while travelling in the area
called Zawiyah in western Libya, on 10 March 2011. Moreover it was reported that the
Libyan authorities admitted holding these two individuals but refused to inform about their
whereabouts.
382. The third communication was transmitted on 18 March 2011, jointly with three other
special procedures mechanisms, concerning Messrs. Safa Aldin Hilal Mohamed Al
Shareef, who was allegedly arrested by Internal Security Forces agents at his workplace in
Ras Lanouf, on 15 February 2011; Adel Abdallah Almadaa Salah, who was allegedly
arrested by Internal Security Forces agents in a hotel in Tripoli on 18 February 2011;
Abdalsalem Alqanashi, who was allegedly arrested by internal security forces agents at
the Libyan-Egyptian border on 19 February 2011; Ali Mubarak Omran, who was
allegedly arrested by a group of persons supporting the central military troops at Al Abrak
airport on 19 February 2011; Alsadek Almabrouk Hamada Bridan, who allegedly
disappeared from Abu Slim prison when internal security forces were evacuating the
prisoners on 16 February 2011. In addition, the urgent appeal concerned Messrs.
Abdalkarim Mohamed Abdalkarim, Salah Almabrouk Saad, Abdallah Abdalsilam
Khalifa, Nasser Amar Ali, Farj Amar Ali, Assam Mohamed Abdalrazak Shahat, Ali
Mohamed Salah, Souad Ali Boumbrika, Abdessalam Youness, and Adam Masaoud
Mohamed Idrisswere, who were allegedly abducted by a group of people supporting the
central military troops in Al Abrak airport where they were last seen on 19 February 2011.
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