International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

impunity damages whole societies by covering up serious human rights abuses, corruption, and crime

On Tuesday, November 2, 2021, seventeen (17) Libyan NGOs, including Human Rights Solidarity, published a joint statement in which they called on the Government of National Unity to implement the recommendations of the report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on “the Safety of Journalists”, and recommended the establishment of an independent constitutional body that works on the independence and freedom of the media and organizes its work in accordance with professional standards.

The organizations urged journalists and media professionals to adhere to the highest values of their profession and to combat hate speech and incitement to violence and called on them to exercise their role in rooting out racism and xenophobia.

Human Rights Solidarity Organization calls on the Government of National Unity to immediately release photojournalist Saddam Hussein as-Saket, who was kidnapped in front of the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Tripoli. Ending the sit-in of hundreds of refugees in front of the UNHCR headquarters is by addressing the causes that made them homeless[1], not by trying to conceal the truth through the kidnapping of a photojournalist.