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Introduction:
The Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamhiriya, while
submitting this 5th periodic report to the African Commission on
Human and Peoples' Rights in due regard of Article (62) of the
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights for 1981, it is
thereby putting before members of the solemn Committee,
African Union member states and NGOs interested in human
rights in Africa, this Report which throws light on the peoplebased human rights system as envisaged in the First Statement
of the 1st of September (Fateh) 1969 Revolution, the declared
institution of the power of the people in 1977, the Great Green
Charter of Human Rights in the Era of the Masses in 1988, and
the executing Freedom Promotion Act no. 20/1991, being two
underlying documents drawn from the fundamentals of the
Third Universal Theory as conspicuously unfolding in political
rights, the right to practice direct democracy "the power of the
people", the right to employment (right to paid labor) and
others.
Thus the Report addressed, inter alia, rights provided for in the
African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights for 1981, falling
in six (6) parts as follows:
First: Civil and Political Rights: can be summed up as the
right to life, to physical and moral integrity, to freedom, to
power exercise, to expression and opinion, to movement and
residence, to equality and to prosecution.
The Report has elaborated on the right to life and how to
maintain and preserve human psyche. It has reflected on the
clear Libyan legal response to this issue in conformity with
human rights. It also made reference to the right to physical and
moral integrity with emphasis on the Libyan legal position in
forbidding, prohibiting and incriminating torture in all its forms,
and deeming it punishable. Moreover, the Report has tackled the
political right of Libyan citizens, males and females, being the