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Haftar forces free photographer in east Libya after 3 years in jail

by French Press Agency - AFP

Benghazi Sep 12, 2021 - 10:02 pm GMT+3
The word of Benghazi is placed next to a beach in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 8, 2021. (REUTERS Photo)
The word of Benghazi is placed next to a beach in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 8, 2021. (REUTERS Photo)
by French Press Agency - AFP Sep 12, 2021 10:02 pm
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After 3 years in jail, a Libyan photographer jailed by a military tribunal in 2018 has been released under an amnesty ordered by forces loyal to putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar, official sources said Sunday.

"Ismail Abuzreiba al-Zway, sentenced to 15 years in prison, was released after benefiting from a special amnesty from the general command of the armed forces" under Haftar's control, a source in the military prosecutor's office in the city of Benghazi said.

Zway was released late Saturday, the source told Agence France-Presse (AFP), speaking on condition of anonymity.

Hanan Salah, a researcher on Libya for Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a tweet, wrote that his release was "overdue" and came "after 3yrs of arbitrary detention."

Zway was arrested in Ajdabiya in December 2018, a town in the east under Haftar's control.

A military tribunal in Benghazi gave him a 15-year sentence in May 2020 "for communicating with a television channel that supports terrorism," a reference to the privately run station Al-Nabaa, according to HRW's report for 2020.

"A #Benghazi military court in May 2020 had sentenced Zway in a secret trial to 15 years in prison on trumped-up 'terrorism' charges," Salah tweeted.

Overdue release of #photojournalist Ismail Abuzreiba Al-Zway after 3 yrs of arbitrary detention. A #Benghazi military court in May 2020 had sentenced Zway in a secret trial to 15 yrs in prison on trumped up “terrorism” charges.#Libyahttps://t.co/CMkn1gFvrc https://t.co/M2gkyoZztS

— Hanan Salah (@HananMSalah) Sept. 12, 2021

Zway's conviction sparked "dismay" from the United Nations support mission in the North African country.

"The detention and trial appear to violate Libya's laws as well as its international obligations on the right to a fair trial" and freedom of expression, UNSMIL said in a tweet in August last year. Libya is trying to extricate itself from a decade of turmoil following the 2011 toppling of dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

In March, an interim government was sworn in to lead Libya toward Dec. 24 parliamentary and presidential polls under an U.N.-brokered peace process.

Libya ranks 165 out of 180 countries on Reporters Without Borders (RSF)'s World Press Freedom Index.

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