Priorities for legislative reform
Subtitle: a human rights roadmap for a new Libya
By: [Hanan Salah]
Contributors: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [New York, NY]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9781623130756
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Human rights; Civil rights; Administration of Justice; Women; Legal status, laws; Torture
Other titles: Human rights roadmap for a new Libya; Libya :
Notes: "This report was researched and written by Hanan Salah, Libya researcher in the Middle East and North Africa division"--Page 63.

"January 2014"--Table of contents page.

"In this 69-page report, Human Rights Watch calls on Libya to press forward with legislative reforms, making abolishing the death penalty for more than 30 crimes the top priority. The government should place an immediate moratorium on death sentences until the laws are revised, particularly in light of concerns about the fairness of the judicial process. Lawmakers also should repeal Gaddafi-era laws that prescribe corporal punishment, including lashing for extramarital intercourse and slander, and amputation of limbs"--Provided by publisher.

The report urges changes to laws that deal with torture, defamation, the media, civil organizations, political rights, women, and refugees. See back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.

Also issed online via the Human Rights Watch Web site.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: I. Freedom of expression; title: II. Crimes against the state; title: III. Freedom of association; title: IV. Right to peaceful assembly; title: V. Torture; title: VI. Corporal punishment; title: VII. The special procedures law and impunity; title: VIII. Death penalty; title: IX. Violence and discrimination against women; title: X. Rights of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees; title: XI. Political exclusion; title: Recommendations; title: Acknowledgments.