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Libya
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In the early 1980s, a separate and parallel judicial system
emerged that abrogated many procedures and rights ensured by the
traditional court system. With the regime's blessing and
encouragement, revolutionary committee members established
revolutionary courts that held public, often televised, trials of
those charged with crimes against the revolution. A law promulgated
in 1981 prohibited private legal practice and made all lawyers
employees of the Secretariat of Justice. In these courts, the
accepted norms--such as due process, the right to legal
representation, and right of appeal--were frequently violated.
According to Amnesty International, Libya held seventy-seven
political prisoners in 1985, of whom about eighteen were held
without trial or remained in detention after having been acquitted.
Others allegedly died under torture while in the custody of members
of the revolutionary committees. Libya also sanctioned murder of
political opponents abroad, a policy reaffirmed on March 2, 1985,
by the GPC.
Data as of 1987
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