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30 weeks 3 days ago - Libya

A report released by Human Rights Watch has found the bodies of 53 people, apparent Gaddafi supporters, which seem to have been executed at a hotel in Sirte last week.

The hotel is in an area of the city that was under the control of anti-Gaddafi fighters from Misrata before the killings took place, the report stated.

HRW has called on Libya's National Transitional Council to conduct an immediate and transparent investigation into the apparent mass execution an to bring those responsible to justice.

For more details on the report, check here.

Tags Gaddafi, human rights watch, National Transitional Council (NTC), Sirte, violence
32 weeks 6 days ago - Libya

The battle for Sirte, hometown of former leader, Muammar Gaddafi, is currently underway. Revolutionary fighters have begun a major assault today, to try to end a three week standoff.

Commanders say this is the final push to take the town from Gaddafi loyalists.

Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr, reporting from the frontline, said that this was going to be the "final assault".

"Right now they are bombarding it and trying to weaken defences - it is going to be quite a fight today."

Tags Gaddafi, National Transitional Council (NTC), NATO, Zeina Khodr
33 weeks 3 days ago - Libya

Al Jazeera has learnt that at least three positions have now been assigned in Libya's interim cabinet.

Chairman of the National Transitional Council Mahmoud Jibril is expected to be confirmed as interim leader.
 
The finance and oil minister Ali Tarhouni will be Jibril's deputy.
 
And Salem Joha - an NTC commander in Misrata - will most likely become the new defence minister.

Tags Mahmoud Jibril, National Transitional Council (NTC)
39 weeks 6 hours ago - Libya

 

Reuters - The NTC leadership officially announces the move to govern Libya from Tripoli.

Tags National Transitional Council (NTC), Tripoli
39 weeks 2 days ago - Libya
The International Criminal Court has said it had never received official confirmation from the Libyan rebels' council that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Muammar Gaddafi, had been captured. 

Saif's arrest had been reported by the rebels but he appeared before foreign media in Tripoli early on Tuesday, raising questions as to the rebels' credibility.
 
"There was no official confirmation from the National Transitional Council," Fadi el-Abdallah, an ICC official, said.
"Different answers were given. That was a little ambiguous."
He added that statements from both the ICC and the prosecutor on Monday said they had received information about the arrest but that they were trying to confirm this. 

The office of the prosecutor, which told the Reuters news agency early on Monday it had confirmation from sources that Saif had been arrested, has not yet responded to requests for comment.
Tags ICC, National Transitional Council (NTC), Saif al-Islam
39 weeks 2 days ago - Libya
International reaction to the rebel forces' taking of Tripoli is pouring in almost as quickly as the forces' move into the Libyan capital itself.

Libya's capital is more or less in rebel hands, but there is still some resistance from Muammar Gaddafi supporters.

As the National Transitional Council begins planning a post-Gaddafi government, world leaders are asking the Libyan people to avoid further bloodshed:

Tags International reaction, Muammar Gaddafi loyalists, National Transitional Council (NTC), Tripoli
39 weeks 2 days ago - Libya
In a telephone interview with Al Jazeera, Waheed Burshan, president of Libya's National Transitional Council in Gharyan, responded to the escape of Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam.

Speaking from Tunis, he confirmed that Saif had been arrested, but he was unable to say how Gaddafi's son subsequently escaped from his captors. 

Burshan referred to questions of "inexperienced youth" and the lack of a "structured military guard".

 
Tags Muammar Gaddafi, National Transitional Council (NTC), Saif al-Islam
39 weeks 3 days ago - Libya
Libya's opposition is facing serious questions after the startling appearance in Tripoli of one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, Saif al-Islam, his chosen heir. 

Just hours earlier the National Transitional Council (NTC) in Benghazi had reported that Saif was in custody - as rebel fighters celebrated their advances in Tripoli.

Tags Libyan opposition, Muammar Gaddafi, National Transitional Council (NTC), Saif al-Islam
39 weeks 3 days ago - Libya

Combination file photographs of (L-R), Head of National Transitional Council (NTC) Mustafa Abdel Jalil, Mahmoud Jibril, the executive head of the Libyan opposition NTC, Ali Tarhouni, Libyan NTC's minister for oil and finance and Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, Libyan rebel NTC vice chairman and official spokesman.

Libya's rebel council has won recognition from more than 30 countries including the United States, Britain, France and Qatar and now looks set to take over the running of the country.

The National Transitional Council was set up after the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's rule began in February by mostly liberal-minded lawyers, doctors, academics and business executives from eastern Libya and led by Gaddafi's former justice minister, Mustafa Abdel Jalil. [Reuters]

Tags Libya in Images, National Transitional Council (NTC)
39 weeks 3 days ago - Libya

In reply to our earlier tweet that the NTC would vote to decide on the fate of Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam. 

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