{"id":247121,"date":"2026-10-14T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-eastern-authorities-carry-out-wave-of-executions\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T10:30:06","slug":"libya-eastern-authorities-carry-out-wave-of-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-eastern-authorities-carry-out-wave-of-executions\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Eastern Authorities Carry Out Wave of Executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Beirut \u2014 <em>Halt Executions; End Military Trials of Civilians<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">The Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), which controls eastern and southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/n-africa\/libya\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Libya<\/a>, has executed at least 31 people since late August 2026 following grossly unfair military trials, Human Rights Watch said today. These are the first known executions in Libya since 2010, with at least 50 more people in Gernada military prison at imminent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/documents\/mde19\/1455\/2026\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">risk<\/a> of execution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">On August 23, the LAAF military prosecutor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skynewsarabia.com\/middle-east\/1887773-%D8%B3%DB%9B%D8%B1%D9%82-%D9%84%D9%89%D8%A8%D9%89l-%D9%89%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%85-10-%D9%85%D8%AFl%D9%86%D9%89%D9%86-%D8%A8l%D9%84l%D9%95%D8%B1ol%D8%A8-%D9%88l%D9%84l%D8%BA%D8%AA%D9%89l%D9%84l%D8%AA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that 10 people had been executed by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610140107.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut \u2014 Halt Executions; End Military Trials of Civilians The Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), which controls eastern and southern Libya, has executed at least 31 people since late August 2026 following grossly unfair military trials, Human Rights Watch said today. These are the first known executions in Libya since 2010, with at least 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":247122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,7215,11532,7152,9533,4711,892,257,254,8942],"class_list":["post-247121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authorities","tag-carry","tag-eastern","tag-executions","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wave"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}