{{Short description|Libyan politician}} {{Infobox person | name = Fathi Terbil | image = Fathi Terbil, SharqOrg - Jun 14, 2013.jpg | caption = Fathi Terbil talks to SharqOrg about Human rights violations in Libya under Muammar Gaddafi | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1972}} | birth_place = Libyan Arab Republic | occupation = lawyer and human rights activist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Fathi Terbil''', also romanized as '''Fatih Turbel''', ({{langx|ar|فتحي تربل}}) is a Libyan lawyer and human rights activist and member of the former National Transitional Council representing Libyan youth. He represents the relatives of over 1,000 prisoners killed by Libyan security forces in Abu Salim Prison in 1996. He is also the Youth and Sports Minister for the Interim Government.
Fathi Terbil's arrest in February 2011 sparked a demonstration in Benghazi on 15 February by around 200 relatives of the deceased prisoners, which began the Libyan Civil War. He was subsequently said to have been freed.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12477275 |title=Libya protests: Second city Benghazi hit by violence |work=BBC News |date=16 February 2011}}</ref> On 20 February, Terbil told Al Jazeera that security forces - sometimes firing from civilian cars without license plates - had killed dozens, perhaps hundreds, of protestors in Benghazi.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-libya |title=Live Blog - Libya |work=Al Jazeera |date=17 February 2011}}</ref>
On 30 May 2011, he was awarded the Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize ("The award given by lawyers to a lawyer"), given each year to a lawyer who throughout their career has illustrated, by activity or suffering, the defence of human rights in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ludovictrarieux.org |title=The Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize}}</ref>
He was appointed to the Libyan National Transitional Council representing youth after being one of the first arrested in street protests during the Libyan Civil War on 15 February 2011 and later freed.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Transitional Council|url=http://ntclibya.com/InnerPage.aspx?SSID=7&ParentID=3&LangID=1|publisher=National Transitional Council|access-date=25 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727183648/http://www.ntclibya.com/InnerPage.aspx?SSID=7&ParentID=3&LangID=1|archive-date=27 July 2011|location=Benghazi|year=2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120927013720/http://www.incendiaryimage.com/sketchbook/fathi-terbil/ Photos of Fathi Terbil in Beghazi]
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