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Gunmen shot dead Hanan al-Barassi, a prominent female dissident, in broad daylight on a busy street in #Benghazi, in the latest killing of a critic of military strongman Khalifa Haftar and of the abuses in the areas controlled by his Libyan National Army google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…
Barassi ran a local association for the defence of women’s rights & spoke out against violence against women in videos she broadcast on social media. In footage posted to her FB page just before she was shot, criticised armed groups close to Haftar, saying she’d been “threatened” A woman wearing a black headscarf sitting in a car
Barassi’s killing comes nearly a year and a half after the disappearance of another prominent women’s rights activist, Siham Sergiwa, who was abducted from her home in #Benghazi by armed men on 17 July and has not been heard from since. #Libya A woman seen from the chest up wearing a cream coloured blaz
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