Press release 17.02.06

Araya
Human Rights Organization

Press release 17.02.06

Atrocity and killing in Libya
Eleven dead, fifty one wounded

People are shot dead in cold blood in Libya and we do not see any action taken to curb the desire of the dictators in the east and the west for shooting defenseless administrators and for abusing the prisoners in Libya.

Gaddafi has forbidden any demonstration and freedom of _expression in Libya since his cultural revolution in 1974. Since then the emergency rule is to cancel the following:

1. Freedom of speech and _expression.

2. Freedom of writing and press and he cleaned off all book shops from any book other than his green book.

3. Freedom of joining different parties other than that of the government. Any Libyan that doesn't attend his green book meetings and join the people's committees is a traitor.

4. Freedoms of peaceful demonstrations and assemblies.
This is in breach of the international law 1948 which states the following:

1- Right to life, liberty and security of person.

2- Right not to be subjected to torture, to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. punishment,

3- Right to recognition anywhere as a person before the law

4- Right to equality before the law

5- Right to a fair and public hearing

6- Right to presume innocent of a criminal offence until proven guilty.

7- Right to freedom of opinion and _expression

8- Right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

9- Right to participate in political cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

The families of those killed in Libya are in disarray.

Killing people in cold blood is a criminal offence. These people are killed by bullets, not mistakenly, but deliberately according to the law of Gaddafi. The demonstrators were asking for political changes by reinstating the Libyan constitution as the rule of the land.
Peaceful demonstrators should be never faced with real bullets. And if some of them go over the limit they should be faced with water jets and tear gas and no real bullets.

Gaddafi men; acting like mafia in silencing any demonstrators and killing for real. This is to make sure no freedom of speech attempts will ever survive. This is to teach a lesson to those who would try to demonstrate against the government again.

Gaddafi is the responsible head figure for what happened as no one in the country would be brave to do any thing without his blessings, at least over the phone.

Removing his internal minister as a cosmetic precaution is a mean for him to prevent the reinstitution of the opposition in Libya, and to absorb the anger of the Libyan people.

We as a human rights organization ask the world to support the Libyan people for their struggle and press on the dictator to fulfil the demonstrator's demands, which are:

1. Freedom of peaceful demonstration
2. Freedom of speech and _expression
3 Freedom of judges and the judicial system

We want to know the real inquiries behind the killing of these young men in Benghazi, and a fair international court hearing should be conducted against the government and those responsible.

The general secretary