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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zeinab Mohammed Salih

Six Libyans face death penalty for converting to Christianity

The shadow of a protester is cast on Libyan flags
A protester seen through Libyan flags during a protest in Tripoli after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Since then dissent has been increasingly suppressed. Photograph: Gianluigi Guercia/AFP/Getty

Six Libyans are facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity and proselytising under laws increasingly being used to silence civil society and human rights organisations, say activists.

The women and men – some from Libya’s minority ethnic groups, including the Amazigh, or Berbers, in the west of the country – were separately detained in March by security forces.

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