The National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) said that it is strengthening its daily involvement in the struggle to consolidate human rights values and translate them into reality. It aims to enable victims to recover their rights as individuals and groups in Libya.
In a statement on Human Rights Day, it affirmed its work to promote human rights, continue to document human rights violations, and seek justice for all victims as well as affected people through all available means.
The NCHRL stated that it recalls the victims of violations of human rights and freedom of opinion and expression. This includes journalists, media professionals, defenders of human rights and public freedoms, lawyers, activists, and bloggers who died or whose fate is still vague and forcibly disappeared, expressing its full solidarity with the victims in Libya.
The NCHRL called on the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to pay attention to the root causes of the problems in order to find lasting solutions. This is instead of focusing on short-term solutions and ending the state of impunity for those involved in human rights violations and targeting civilians in Libya.
The NCHRL also renewed its request to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council to work on appointing a special international rapporteur on human rights violations in Libya.
Last month, the NCHRL expressed its rejection of “campaigns of incitement, abuse, and questioning of the legitimacy of the judicial power structures, led by the Office of the Attorney General.”
The NCHRL condemned the “escalation of campaigns of insulting the judicial authorities, questioning the legitimacy of the heads of their structures, and interfering in their affairs, in many forums and events.”
It added that “such campaigns aim to plunge the judicial authorities into the circle of political conflict. The latest of which is challenging the legality of Attorney General, Al-Siddiq Al-Sour on the grounds that Libyan Parliament Resolution No. 2 of 2021 is unconstitutional.”
The NCHRL described what was happening as “a deliberate abuse of the judicial authority, aimed at undermining it and hindering its efforts to consolidate the rule of law and justice, end impunity, protect rights and freedoms, combat corruption, crime, and organized crime.”