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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
The authorities in post-Gaddafi Libya often make a lot of promises about a new era for democracy and freedom. Instead, human rights groups and activists are warning the country is steadily returning to ‘total tyranny’ with a sustained security crackdown on independent journalism, and now, even expressions of secular thinking. The New Arab has learned that seven activists – aged between 19 and 29 – have been detained in Tripoli as Libyan security forces and authorities use accusations of atheism to jail journalists and muzzle civil society. Five of the detainees have been accused by Libya’s pub…