Fathi Terbil

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Fathi Terbil ( Arabic فتحي طربيل, also Fatih Turbel ) is a Libyan lawyer, human rights activist and member of the National Transitional Council , in which he is a representative of the youth.

Life

Terbil studied at Garyounis University in Benghazi .

He is the lawyer for the relatives of around 1200 murdered prisoners in the massacre that was carried out by Libyan security guards in 1996 in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. According to Terbil, his brother Ismail Osma Terbil, his cousin Khaled Terbil, his brother-in-law Jamal Muftah Al Rebaa and five former fellow students also fell victim to the massacre.

Because of his investigations into the massacre, Terbil was arrested by Libyan security forces on February 15, 2011, whereupon around 200 of his clients in the Abu Salim case initiated a sit-down in front of a police station in Benghazi . Terbil was released the following day, but the demonstrations continued and culminated on February 17, 2011 in a day of anger proclaimed by opposition activists .

In 2011 he was awarded the Ludovic Trarieux Human Rights Prize by the Institute for Human Rights of the European Lawyers. Time Magazine also named him one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2011.

On November 22, 2011, Terbil was sworn in as the new Minister for Youth and Sport of the Libyan interim government.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Transitional Council. National Transitional Council, archived from the original on August 25, 2011 ; accessed on October 10, 2011 (English).
  2. ↑ a b International Ludovic Trarieux Human Rights Award 2011 (PDF; 170 kB) Accessed on October 14, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Abeer Maghribi: Fathi Terbil: The Libyan people have sufficient awareness to avert a bloodbath. (No longer available online.) LibyaTV, June 29, 2011, archived from the original on July 7, 2011 ; accessed on October 14, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / english.libya.tv
  4. ↑ Selim Saheb Ettaba: Terbil: the face of Libya revolt. Dawn.com, accessed October 14, 2011 .
  5. ^ The 2011 TIME 100. Time Magazine, April 21, 2011, accessed October 14, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Ex-rebels are given key positions. Tagesschau, November 22, 2011, accessed on November 29, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Terbil, Fathi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turbel, Fatih
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Libyan lawyer and member of the National Transitional Council
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century