{"id":2493,"date":"2020-11-11T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T09:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whrdmena.org\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2023-04-16T02:06:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T23:06:20","slug":"alert-assassination-of-libyan-lawyer-hanan-al-barasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/2020\/11\/11\/alert-assassination-of-libyan-lawyer-hanan-al-barasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert: Assassination of Libyan lawyer Hanan Al-Barasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Alert: Assassination of Libyan lawyer Hanan Al-Barasi<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Libyan lawyer, Hanan Al-Barasi was assassinated by unidentified gunmen in Benghazi, one day after announcing her firm intention to publish a video regarding Saddam Haftar\u2019s corruption. In a <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5458 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2023-02-10-12.56.45-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2023-02-10-12.56.45-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2023-02-10-12.56.45-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2023-02-10-12.56.45-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2023-02-10-12.56.45.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>press statement, Amnesty stated that Al-Barasi, along with her daughter,\u00a0 had received numerous death prior to the assassination.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Hanan Al-Barasi is known for her defense of human rights, as well as for her documentation of the involvement of armed groups in perpetuating sexual violence against women in Benghazi, as well as exposing corruption and financial fraud cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">WHRDs in Libya continue to work in dangerous and violent contexts. The assassination of Hanan Al-Barassi comes a year and a half after the disappearance of Representative Siham Sergiwa, who was kidnapped by an armed group in Benghazi and has not been found since then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alert: Assassination of Libyan lawyer Hanan Al-Barasi Libyan lawyer, Hanan Al-Barasi was assassinated by unidentified gunmen in Benghazi, one day after announcing her firm intention to publish a video regarding Saddam Haftar\u2019s corruption. In a press statement, Amnesty stated that Al-Barasi, along with her daughter,\u00a0 had received numerous death prior to the assassination.\u00a0 Hanan Al-Barasi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[440,442,475],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy-work","tag-alert","tag-libya","tag-north-africa-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6657,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/6657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}