Detainees
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2020-070-002
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2020
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 26.3351
Longitude: 17.228331
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Libya
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN (Dep.) High Commissioner on Human Rights
- Dates of prior UN action
- January 2020
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
UNSMIL unable to visit prisons
- Type of rights defended
- Civil/political rights
- Was the victim a civil servant, member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Peace Operation / Political mission
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- Unclear
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Detention facilities
- Reprisal information
noted that the ability of United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to monitor and verify alleged violations was “limited by insecurity and access constraints to locations and institutions where human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law had reportedly been committed,” which may have impacted the full reporting of violations actually committed; In particular, the High Commissioner reported severe limits of UNSMIL/OHCHR to access detention facilities stating that the Mission was unable to visit prisons under the control of the Ministry of Justice and the Judicial Police in the east, and was only able to visit three prisons in the west
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Access denied to UN expert/representative
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- Both state and non-state actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0