UN Human Rights Committee
Recommendations for Libyan Government
October, 1998
[Source: Human
Rights Internet]
1. Fully, publicly and impartially investigate all allegations related
to summary execution, arbitrary arrest or detention and long periods of
detention without trial; bring the perpetrators of these acts to justice;
compensate the victims and/or the family of victims;
2. Include, in the next report, names and statistics about disappeared persons, cases of extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions, persons kept in detention without charge, indefinite detention without trial, continued detention after acquittal by the courts; 3. Provide, in the next report, information on the number of death sentences carried out in the last 10 years, the type of offences for which the death penalty has been imposed, the manner in which the execution has been carried out; 4. Take urgent steps to reduce the number and type of crimes entailing capital punishment; repeal all legislation incompatible with article 6 of the Covenant; 5. Provide information on the steps taken to reduce maternal mortality; 6. Enforce a more efficient system for monitoring treatment of all detainees; 7. Ensure that all cases of alleged torture or ill treatment are investigated by an impartial body; publish the results of such investigations; ensure that officials responsible for torture and ill treatment are prosecuted and, if convicted, severely punished; 8. Include in the next report information on prison conditions; 9. Provide human rights training for law enforcement personnel; 10. Repeal, without delay, all laws and regulations providing for flogging as punishment; 11. Abolish the provision of amputation as punishment, noting that the practice is not used but related provisions remain on the books; 12. Suspend, without delay, and take steps to repeal the "Charter of Honour"; 13. Provide human rights training to all judges and members of the legal profession; provide information on the jurisdiction, composition and activities of the Revolutionary Security Courts as well as on the organization of the legal profession; 14. Suspend immediately provisions in the Publication Act (1972) that are incompatible with the Covenant and take steps to revise the Act; 15. Take steps to ensure compliance with article 25 of the Covenant, related to genuine elections by secret ballot; 16. Ensure that all individuals realize their right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, noting the statement that "all Libyans are Muslims by birth and heredity"; 17. Intensify efforts to guarantee full realization by women and men of all human rights; 18. Include, in the next report, information on the protection of persons belonging to minorities as well as specific information on minorities; and 19. Take urgent steps to allow the free operation of independent non-governmental human rights organizations. |
The Committee decided that Libya's 4th periodic report would be
due in October 2002.