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War on the Media: Journalists Under Attack in Libya

Human Rights Watch (2015), 50 pp.

ISBN 978-1-6231-32309

"This report documents attacks against journalists and the offices and facilities of media outlets since the 2011 uprising, including threats, assaults, kidnappings, and killings and addresses the failure of the government to protect journalists and the media, and hold perpetrators of attacks on them accountable. Human Rights Watch is not aware of a single instance in which officials prosecuted a perpetrator of an attack against a journalist or media outlet since 2011. The report also documents criminal prosecutions of journalists for defamation and libel, on the basis of problematic laws that continue to unduly restrict freedom of expression." (Summary)
1 Background: Libya’s Media Landscape, 5
2 Attack on the Media since 2011, 11
3 Journalists and Criminal Law, 36
Recommendations, 47