November 2016

The Warden of the Hadba Prison, Khalid Al-Sharif, declined the news reported by news outlets and websites about the death of the former Colonel at the Military Police, Abu Bakr Momen, inside the prison due to torture.

Momen has been imprisoned in Hadba since 2011 as he was charged with taking part in Abu Salim massacre during Gaddafi’s reign.

Some social media reported the Libyan authorities’ shutdown of the country’s border of Ras Ajdair with Tunisia.

The Libya Observer could not verify the reports so far.

On the other hand, all crossings between Libya and Tunisia via Ras Ajdair border have been suspended for the second day in a row, except for the Libyans and Tunisians who are returning to their countries from either side.

A Libyan fisherman saved the lives of 120 illegal migrants who were stranded onboard a broke down dinghy 7 miles off northern Zuwara shores.

The migrants were from different Arab, and African nationalities in addition to Bangladeshis, Libyan News Agency reported the spokesman of the Libyan Navy, Ayoub Qassim, who added that there were also 6 women.

“I wrestled the waves all the way through the ocean by tugging the broken down dinghy to Zuwara port using my small fishing boat.” The fisherman was reported as saying.

The Prime Minister of the Salvation Government (SG) in Tripoli, Khalifa Al-Ghweil, said his government’s stance on Khalifa Haftar has not changed, adding that they think he is a coup plotter who has for long committed crimes against the Libyan people and he must be tried for them at a Libyan court.

“We have told our fellow citizens in the east to rally around us if they wanted to form a real military institution that will be governed not with a single person and we told them that Libya is for all of us.” Al-Ghweil said.