Teachers’ Movement escalates in Abu Salim Municipality
LIBYA – The head of the Teachers’ Movement in Libya, Ashraf Al-Hadi, has announced a move to civil disobedience at all educational facilities in Abu Salim Municipality, in protest at what he said were threats and harassment targeting teachers in the municipality.
Threats, intimidation and harassment condemned
Al-Hadi said, in comments to Libya Al-Hadath TV — followed and summarised by Al-Marsad — that he condemned all forms of threats, intimidation and harassment against education workers, demanding an immediate halt to any practices that could affect their safety, freedoms or union and civil rights.
Security services’ responsibility and judicial intervention
He held the security body concerned legally responsible for any abuses or arbitrary measures proven to have been committed, stressing that any official who oversteps his powers must be held to account under the law.
He called on the Attorney General, the judicial authorities and the national human rights bodies concerned to intervene urgently, investigate the incidents and ensure that teachers are protected.
Disobedience until abuses stop and are guaranteed not to recur
He said the civil disobedience decision covers all educational facilities in Abu Salim, and that the movement was taking the step in solidarity with teachers who he says are being threatened, until the alleged abuses stop and guarantees are obtained that they will not be repeated.
He warned that trying to resume classes through threats or coercion would not, in his assessment, resolve the crisis in education.
