Take Action!

• Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible:

  - noting the statement by the Gaddafi Development Foundation that Fathi el-Jahmi is receiving medical care, but urging the authorities to ensure that it is adequate and delivered by professionals with the relevant expertise, including by allowing an independent medical assessment of his condition;

  - requesting clarification of the current legal status of Fathi el-Jahmi, along with details of the trial and sentence against him;

  - urging the authorities to ensure that any court decision issued against him was made available to him, that he has been granted the right to appeal and that he has access to a defense lawyer of his choosing;

  - calling for Fathi el-Jahmi to be allowed regular visits by his family;

  - reiterating that he appears to have been detained solely for acts which involved the non-violent exercise of his right to freedom of expression, and that he is therefore a prisoner of conscience who should be released immediately and unconditionally.

Write to:

Head of State

Colonel Mu‘ammar al-Gaddafi

Office of the Leader of the Revolution, Tripoli, Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Email:              info@algathafi.org

Salutation:       Your Excellency

 

Justice Minister

Mustafa Abdeljalil

Secretary of the General People’s Committee for Justice,

Secretariat of the General People’s Committee for Justice

Tripoli, Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Email: secretary@aladel.gov.ly

Fax:                 011 218 21 4805427

Salutation:       Your Excellency
Airmail postage: 90 cents Salutation: "Your Excellency"

COPIES TO:

The Gaddafi Development Foundation

Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi

President, The Gaddafi Development Foundation

El Fatah Tower, 5th Floor B No. 57, PO Box 1101

Tripoli, Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Email:              info@gaddaficharity.org

 

Mr. Ali Suleiman Aujali, Minister

Charge D'Affaires Ad Interim

Embassy of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

2600 Virginia Ave NW

Suite 705

Washington DC 20037

Fax:                 1 202 944 9606

Email:             libya@libyanbureau-dc.org

 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Amnesty International believes that Fathi el-Jahmi is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the non-violent exercise of his right to freedom of expression. The charges against him appear to relate to his contact with US diplomats before his arrest and to his outspoken interviews in March 2004 with satellite news channels, including Dubai-based Al Arabiya and US-based Al Hurra. His health is deteriorating, and without proper treatment his life may be in grave danger.

Fathi el-Jahmi was previously detained between 2002 and 2004 for peacefully expressing his political views. For further details, see AI report Libya: Time to make human rights a reality, April 2004.

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Please send cards of support to:

Fathi el-Jahmi
Tripoli Medical Center
University Street
(next to Al-Fateh University)
Tower 1, 3rd Floor, Room 603
Tripoli
LIBYA