Front Line is deeply concerned following the sentencing of human rights defenders Al Sadiq Qashut, Ahmad Yusif Al Ubaidi, Jamal Al Haji, a writer who has worked to defend freedom of speech, Al Al Dirsi, Faraj Humaid, Ali Humaid, Al Mahdi Humaid, Al Sadiq Salih Humaid, Dr Idris Boufayed, Farid Al Zuwi and Bashir Al Haris to between six and twenty-five years' imprisonment, on 10 June 2008. The eleven human rights defenders were sentenced for planning a peaceful demonstration which was due to take place on 17 February 2007 to commemorate the first anniversary of a demonstration in the city of Benghazi, in which eleven demonstrators were killed when the demonstration was violently broken up by the police. 
