Libyan Embassy in Algeria “blackmailed” Algerians with political files

Libyan authorities prevented, Algerians from returning to Libya after they left it before or after the crisis, which ended with the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, as Ali Zeidane’s government, obliged Algerians to sign “heavy” pledges to enable them to receive their Algerian relatives.

Ms.”A.K” Echorouk that the Libyan services of passports, that are concerned with providing entries of Algerians to Libyan territory, refuse to grant them licenses for that, despite their residence for more than two decades in the Libyan territories, adding that her family was forced to leave the Libyan soil before the crisis, for family links in Algeria, but they were surprised when the Libyan Department of Passports refused to allow them to return to Libya, despite the presence of a relative in Libya and it comes to their sister.

”The family went last March to the Libyan Embassy in Algiers to investigate in the matter, but the embassy refused to deal with their concerns, and focused its talk only and purely on political issues, and asking specific and accurate questions, such as “Why were they received by Gaddafi family? “, and other matters which led to a chill in the Algerian-Libyan relations soon”.

”My sister was residing in Libya and married a Libyan, but I wa subject to security investigation, after I had been invited by my sister to visit her in Libya, and the reason behind the security investigation is that my sister was a journalist in Algeria, moreovert the Libyan authorities asked me to sign a pledge that includes a commitment which proves that her sister and during the duration of her stay in Libya will not speak in Libyan regard generally, and especially political and security issues, and the reality of relationships between Algeria and Libya, and she should not write anything about the situation in Libya when she returns to Algeria”.

Libyan authorities have already put similar conditions in 2011, a they resorted to imposing visa to enter the Libyan territory on Algerians and others from neighboring countries and Arab states, and excluded only the Tunisians and Turks from these procedures.