Libya
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- transitional government
- CONSTITUTION
- the National Transitional Council, recognized by the UN in September 2011 as the legitimate interim government, operates under a temporary constitution
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- N/A
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- in September 2011, the United Nations recognized the Libyan National Transitional Council (TNC) as the legitimate governing authority; the TNC established a new transitional government on November 22, 2011
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- N/A
RELIGIONS
97% Sunni, 3% other
From the country
- JANUARY 22, 2007LibyaDEATH PENALTY
the EU Foreign Ministers expressed
the EU Foreign Ministers expressed "serious concerns" over the "unacceptable
- JANUARY 18, 2007LibyaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. EU TO REVIEW RELATIONS WITH TRIPOLI OVER MEDICS CASE
The European Union parliament called on member states to reconsider their relations with Libya unless it releases six foreign medics
- JANUARY 1, 2007LibyaDEATH PENALTY
A large number of offences, including political offences and economic “crimes” are punishable by death.
A large number of offences, including political offences and economic “crimes” are punishable by death.
- DECEMBER 19, 2006BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. FOREIGN MEDICS SENTENCED TO DIE IN HIV CASE
a Libyan court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
- DECEMBER 19, 2006LibyaDEATH PENALTY
EU DENOUNCED DEATH SENTENCES AGAINST BULGARIAN MEDICS
the President of the EU Commission José Manuel Barroso sharply condemned the death sentences against the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestine doctor confirmed today in Libya.
- DECEMBER 19, 2006ItalyDEATH PENALTY
HOC. NO TO RANSOM FOR MEDICS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN LIBYA
Secretary of Hands Off Cain Sergio D’Elia and Elisabetta Zamparutti, treasurer, made the following declaration in relation to the case of the five Bulgarian medics and the Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya:
- DECEMBER 6, 2006BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. NEW EVIDENCE MAY EXONERATE BULGARIA’S NURSES
Nature Magazine has published a report claiming that there is new evidence to the innocence of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of causing a HIV pandemic in a Benghazi hospital.
- DECEMBER 6, 2006LibyaDEATH PENALTY
IRAQI COURT SENTENCES LIBYAN TO DEATH FOR TERRORISM
an Iraqi court sentenced a Libyan member of al-Qaida in Iraq to death after he admitted taking part in eight attacks on US-led coalition forces and Iraqi targets...
- AUGUST 28, 2006BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. DEATH PENALTY SOUGHT IN HIV CASE
Libyan prosecutor Omar Abdulkhaleq demanded the death penalty for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on trial for the second time on charges that they infected hundreds of children with the HIV virus.
- JULY 17, 2006BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. QADDAFI COULD GRANT BULGARIAN NURSES AMNESTY
Libyan court will confirm the death sentences of Bulgaria's five nurses, a newspaper has said citing anonymous sources.
- MAY 3, 2006LibyaDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. POLITICAL PRISONER MAY FACE DEATH PENALTY
Libya's most prominent political prisoner, Fathi al-Jahmi, faces a possible death sentence for slandering Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi and talking with a foreign official, Human Rights Watch said.
- MARCH 11, 2006JordanDEATH PENALTY
JORDAN. TWO ISLAMIC MILITANTS EXECUTED FOR MURDER OF U.S. DIPLOMAT
Jordan executed two Islamist militants convicted of killing a US diplomat in Amman in 2002 in a rare move to implement a death sentence against security detainees.