Libya - Court lifts travel ban on ailing newspaper editor

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders hails a 21 August decision by a special court in Tripoli headed by Judge Ali Zwai to return Al-Umma editor Amara Al-Khitabi's passport and remove him from a list of people banned from leaving the country. The decision was issued after Khitabi's lawyer, Ramadam Farag Salem, submitted a detailed medical report showing that his ailing client needed to travel to Tunisia to receive appropriate treatment. Khitabi was arrested last December after publishing a list of 87 (...)

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