2000 in Libya

The following lists events that happened in 2000 in Libya.

← 1999 1998 1997 2000 in Libya → 2001 2002 2003
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See also:	Other events of 2000 List of years in Libya

Incumbents

• President: Muammar al-Gaddafi
• Prime Minister: Muhammad Ahmad al-Mangoush (until 1 March), Imbarek Shamekh (starting 1 March)

Events

January

• 13 January - 2000 Marsa Brega Short 360 crash

March

• 2 March - Imbarek Shamekh is appointed Secretary of the General People's Committee.^[1]

• Six Libyan nationals are sentenced in absentia by the Court of Assizes in Paris to life imprisonment for the 1989 bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger.^[2]

April

• 7 April - The Egyptian Court of Cassation suspends a Cairo Court of Appeals ruling ordering compensation to the wife of disappeared Libyan opposition leader Mansour Kikhiya.^[2]
• The UN Security Council suspends the international air embargo and other sanctions against Libya after two suspects for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing trial are handed over.^[2]

August

• Mohammad 'Ali al-Bakoush, detained without charge since 1989, dies in Abu Salim Prison reportedly due to poor detention conditions.^[2]

September

• 15 September - 1 October: 2000 Summer Olympics - Libya competes at the Sydney Olympics with three athletes in judo, taekwondo, and marathon, winning no medals.^[3]
• 30 September - Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi publicly invites Amnesty International and other human rights groups to visit Libya, denying the existence of political prisoners.^[2]

• The government expels hundreds of sub-Saharan workers following mob violence and attacks on their residences and workplaces.^[4]

October

• 18–29 October: 2000 Summer Paralympics - Libya sends its largest-ever delegation (17 athletes across 3 sports) to the Sydney 2000 Summer Paralympics. Abdelrahim Hamed wins Libya's first-ever Paralympic medal, a bronze, in the men's +100 kg powerlifting event (lifting 235 kg).^[5][6]

Births

Deaths