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Home > Libya, ICRC Visits to Detainees
[Source: ICRC, ‘Libya: Hardship and danger remain’, Operational Update No. 12/01, 16/02/2016, https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/update/2012/libya-update-2012-02-16.htm [1]]
[Source: ICRC, ‘Annual Report 2013 (Libya)’, pp. 164 – 169, available at http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/5374af880.pdf] [2]
[Source: Reuters Africa, ‘ICRC says has visited Gaddafi son in prison’, 22 November 2011, available at http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5E7MM5D620111122 [3]]
1. How would you classify the situation in Libya? What additional information would you need in order to make such a determination? (GC I-IV, Art. 2 [4] and Art. 3 [5], P I, Art. 1 [6], P II, art. 1 [7])
2. Does IHL provide a legal basis for detention in non-international armed conflicts? What protections are provided in IHL for those detained or interned in non-international armed conflict? In International Human Rights Law? (GC I-IV, Art. 3 [8]; P II, Arts 4 [9], 5 [10], 6 [11]; See also Procedural principles and safeguards for internment/administrative detention in armed conflict and other situations of violence [12]).
3. Does the ICRC have a right to visit detainees? In international armed conflicts? In non-international armed conflicts? (GC I-IV, Art. 3 [8]; GC III, Art. 126 [13]; GC IV, Art. 143 [14]; P II, Art. 18 [15])
6. In your opinion, is visiting a high profile political person detained consistent with the ICRC’s Fundamental Principles? Even if the person is accused of war crimes? (Proclamation of the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross [16])
7. Why may States be reluctant to authorise ICRC visits to prisons? Which aspects of the ICRC’s modus operandi might encourage them to allow such visits? (See Proclamation of the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross [16]; Purpose and Conditions of ICRC Visits [17])
For further analysis of the situation in Libya, see also case-study Libya, NATO Intervention 2011 [18] on How Does Law protect in War? Online [19].
Source URL: https://ihl-in-action.icrc.org/case-study/libya-icrc-visits-detainees
[1] https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/update/2012/libya-update-2012-02-16.htm
[2] http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/5374af880.pdf]
[3] http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5E7MM5D620111122
[5] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/ART/365-570006?OpenDocument
[6] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/ART/470-750004?OpenDocument
[8] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=BAA341028EBFF1E8C12563CD00519E66
[9] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=F9CBD575D47CA6C8C12563CD0051E783
[12] https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/article/review/review-858-p375.htm
[13] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=7906C83A016D8A9EC12563CD0051B596
[14] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=E902285DB5A35160C12563CD0051C602
[15] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/applic/ihl/ihl.nsf/Article.xsp?action=openDocument&amp;documentId=C97EBA985969303BC12563CD0051E90B
[16] https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/fundamental-principles-commentary-010179.htm
[17] https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/detention-visits-010407.htm
[18] https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/libya-nato-intervention-2011
[19] https://casebook.icrc.org/