Libyan Human Rights Center

According to Middle East Monitor's Yemen News Portal, Turkey, which has been increasingly active in humanitarian outreach operations among Muslim Brotherhood controlled territories in Yemen is sending Yemeni mercenaries to Libya. Released intelligence reports indicated that approximately 200 Yemenis arrived in Libya to fight with the Al-Wefaq and GNA.  As MeMo reports,  militias affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood's Al Islah party in Marib sent fighters to Turkey under the guise of receiving treatment in the hospital. From the hospital  they were allegedly transferred to Tripoli. There is speculation that the Islah party is trying to form a military alliance with Turkey by sending mercenaries to fight for Ankara in Libya, amid increasing reports of a possible Turkish intervention in Yemen.  Note: Middle East Monitor is a Qatar-backed publications. Meanwhile, reports of human rights abuses by the Turkey-backed GNA militias, continue to accumulate. Abdel-Hamid Almd...

Ibrahim,  Al-Qadi, director of the health office in Al-Qurbubli area, was abducted on  06/28/2020  by the gangs present in the area. This follows a pattern of high level abductions by militias, GNA affiliates, and Turkey. Reports of the International Mission reveal the injury of 2 citizens of the State of  Niger  who were previously tortured on the basis of their race by the Al-Wefaq militia during the interrogations. After exposing them, a pro-GNA twitter account known as Volcano Anger published disinformation to mislead public opinion, claiming that they were injured by the mines planted by Russia's Wagner mercenaries.  Translation of the tweet: "Operation_Berkan_Anger: two workers of Nigerian nationality were injured as a result of a landmine planted by the terrorist Haftar militia and a Wagner mercenary gang in residential neighborhoods south of Tripoli, before they were defeated and fleeing from them #Tripoli_Tasrah # Sart_return # We will not go back ...

06-25-2020: The human trafficker and fuel smuggler Abd al-Rahman al-Miladi, nicknamed #Bidja, a militia leader in Al Zawiya, in a live broadcast on a personal account on Facebook, denies the charges against him by Pashaga, who are thought to be making many mistakes.  The most prominent in the video comments from the video: " We are under the legitimacy of the state, and what was provided by Al-Zawiya was not provided by anyone - I am the one who arrested illegal immigrants since 2017, not the state or the coast guard.  Tripoli officials have no ambition but to drink coffee and to relax at night. We will not hand over any of the wanted people to Al-Zawiyah in Tripoli."  He continues: "We did not receive any cars from Tripoli during the war and fought with our own cars - Awlad Issa’s area in Warsfana has kidnapping to this day and no one has held them accountable, so why are they talking about the Bedja !!! - We didn’t have it before, to the Tagourian pig and its proximity...

It appears that GNA-affiliated militias are far from united, with intermittent clashes going on among various groups. Furthermore, there is evidence that under Erdogan's orders, the Syrian mercenaries directed by Turkish advisors, are shelling some of the militias that have apparently either outlived their usefulness or are having their differences with the general direction of the confict and/or with the Syrians. Militias in question are from Al-Zawiyah, Gharyan,  and Misurata militia.  Gharyan, Zintan and Sorman militias are supported by  Misurata; however, now that their duties are over, Turkey may choose to liquidate them in order to obtain control over the areas and consolidate military power via the Syrians. While these clashes are taking place, militia cooperation with former ISIS members continues.  Hamza Etweer, a former ISIS member from Gharyan, loyal to the Shura of Derna and a group of Shura members who fought with him, abducted two people known to be civ...

As the tensions between Egypt, LNA, and GNA/Turkey are heating up, according to local sources, GNA affiliated militias were overheard discussing the possibility of cutting off electricity and/or Internet access in the Benghazi area in order to weaken LNA support and as a form of information warfare and control. Part of the issue is the collective punishment of the Haftar supporters. The other issue is prevention of further successful electronic attack by the LNA electronic support. Meanwhile, scuffles among various groups continue on the ground. Violations of the militia grous in the city of Tarhoun: A video clearly shows a Syrian mercenary fighting with militias, including what is known as deterrence, under the 42nd Militia battalion. They are representing themselves as Libyans and are siding with GNA-affiliated local groups. The individual who had ordered the targeting of the homes of the civilians is involved, and the individual implementing these attacks is a mercenary. GNA and Tur...

Saraya Ansar , the a Shia Iran-backed Iraqi militia, enters Libya to support Turkey. This confirms reports of a recently concluded security cooperation agreement between Iran and Turkey, as well as rumors of close cooperation between the two countries on security and defense issues. IRGC-linked vessel delivered a shipment of weapons to Misrata on 04/23/2020. Consequently, the fighters were brought into the country from Turkey by barge. Photos of the fighters entering Libya taken on the ground in Misrata.

Tripoli: Last night, the individual depicted in the picture raised the call to prayer at dawn outside the normal time for that, for unknown reasons According to the local sources, the reason was that the ISIS, which controls the mosques, raised the call to celebrate the arrival of al-Qaeda members from Tunisia to Libya, including an aide (Ayman al-Zawahiri) Misurata: Earlier, a member of a ISIS-affiliated militia  # Hamed_Al-Ammari from the city of Misurata was killed (indication being that his index finger was lifted proving that he belonged to ISIS). Additionally, one of the militias of 301 Misurata was also killed after their clash with the fuel smuggling group in the heat region west of Zawiya. Tarhuna city: A local girl, Marwa Ammar Al-Mabrouk Makhlouf, committed suicide after terrorist militia stormed their house, in an attempt to kidnap her. To avoid being taken into sexual slavery, she threw herself from the top of her family's house. These abductions of women are comm...

Child recruitment by GNA and Turkey affiliated militias and mercenaries is widespread; however, most of the documented cases have come from Misurata (Misrata); the area has been receiving US military support since 2011. The typical strategy for recruitment involves targeting minors in orphanages and offering them 1000 Libyan dinars (200 dollars) weekly. Most recruits have joined the al-Mahjoub brigade; unlike Yemen, where child recruits go to training camps and are cultivators to be fighters; militia child conscripts receive little to no formal training and typically are used as combat fodder. Tripoli: The killing of the child militia member (Matin Fathi Al-Ghariari), born in 2004, who belongs to the “Tripoli Revolutionaries” militia has been documented and released by local sources.  Tripoli: Local sources have documented the killing of the child militia member (Osama Faraj Al-Takroni) born in 2003 and from the city of Misrata and related to the militia crowd, as a result of the c...

 Adel Al-Hanashi Al-Ganzoury, an ISIS  member, fights with Al-Wefaq militias in the Tripoli hubs. He is a booby trap and mine expert who was responsible for the bombing of civilian homes. A group of Tajura youth in Tripoli were executed at the hands of the militias of the Albogra. The militias refused to withdraw the Turkey-backed mercenaries from the area.  Just how effective is US military assistance to local militias in guarding against the return of ISIS?

Tripoli: Muhammad Al-Kilani,  a resident of the Salah Al-Din district claims (Muhammad Al-Kilani) published via social media h account on the status of his house and attached these photos. He and his family returned to their home upon the conclusion of the recent operations, they found their house as it is in the “neighborhood of flowers” ​​and by virtue of the lack of electricity they could not stay at home and they had to visit their house from time to time.  Yestereday they were shocked by a phone call from a neighbor telling them at their house has been set on fire and robbed. Worth noting is that this family has no political orientation and has not been involved in military action. Tripoli today:  Armed clashes between  the Turkey-backed Syrian mercenaries and the local GNA-affiliated militias from Tripoli burned the power stations of the Tripoli International Fair. #Tripoli Militia sexual crimes against Tripoli women and their daughters in the capital, control...

This Egyptian civilian worker was captured by GNA in Tarhuna city. He has small shop selling vegetables , GNA torrtured him Incy burning off his moustance and putting a burning cigarette on his hea. They also gave him food and demanded that he eats like dogs do. Then they started scolding and yelling him, ordering him to bark like a dog. Incidents such as this one are frequent and are often done to receive ransom from LNA and LNA supporters.  .

Turkish Backed Militias and GNA torturing an unnamed civilian from Tarhuna because he is Tarhunian, and presumably aligned with LNA. This follows the Tarhuna offensive which dislodged the LNA forces from the area.  In the video, the militia members are seen cursing him, and telling him to open his legs. Then  they beat him, asking him about two men Nabil or Mohamed using fire. During the interrogation, the interrogators are sodomizing the civilian AKM47 Kalashinkov. The civilian has not yet been found. Last year, the Turkey-backed GNA-affiliated militias captured this young man Younis Al-Barouni from the city of Tripoli, who was originally from the city of Kabau. Kabau is where thAhmed Musa al-Zintani, from the LNA battalion, who was killed in combat. battalion of LNA, comes from. He was captured in # Al-Zahraa axis by Janzour militia. He is the brother of another LNA fighter Haitham al-Barouni, who was killled along with Ahmed Musa al-Zintani at the airport hub two days after...

What follows below is a documentation of war crimes perpetrated by Al-Sarraj led Government of National Accord ("GNA) and Turkey-backed Syrian mercenaries and militias against supports of Libyan National Army ("LNA") and their entire families in Tarhuna, following GNA's offensive. The offensive took place on June 5, 2020, ousting Khalifa Hafter-led forces fromt he city. GNA-affiliated fighters then proceeded to engage in a campaign of indiscriminant and violent retribution against the city residents, and anyone perceived as having been supportive to LNA.  Included in these scenes, with audio and video, are attacks by the GNA fighters inside Tarhuna General Hospital. A video shows the bodies of the LNA fighters killed in action. Their names and affiliation are written on the attached documents.  Following the killings, Al-Sarraj affiliated militias transferred the bodies from the morgue to other locations and buried them in mass graves. These photos have been submitte...