LIbyan children play next to their house in Sirte , Libya, Monday. Sirte, the last city to fall during the revolution and former Gaddafi stronghold, still suffers the terrible effects of almost six weeks of fighting.
Libya’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) revealed that 433 people were killed in the country last year.

A total of 433 people were killed, including 79 children and 10 women, including 201 extrajudicial killings in the incidents of the southern Lebanese city of Brak, Abiar, Qanfouda and Brega, the report said.

In the east of the country, in Al-Hira, in Harhouna and in the western part of the country, particularly in the execution of persons held by armed groups.

The report pointed out that among the dead 157 civilians died as a result of dilutions and mines in the cities of Benghazi, Derna and Sirte.

On arrests and abductions, the Committee confirmed that it had arrested 143 persons arbitrarily and abducted 186 persons.

It also documented 34 cases of aggression, arbitrary or unlawful detention, torture and threats against journalists, activists and human rights defenders. Correspondents of local, Arab and international news agencies and newspapers were also arrested and denied media coverage in the cities of Tripoli, Benghazi and Sebha.

The National Human Rights Commission concluded its report by documenting and monitoring the 15 cases of attacks on health facilities in the cities of Benghazi, Sebha, Zawia, Tripoli, Wershafana and Derna, which exposed the lives of doctors and patients and the fragile health care system.

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