source: Libya24; Al Wasat; Libya Observer; UNSMIL
actor1: Rioters (Libya)
actor2: Police Forces of Libya (2016-2021)
location: Tripoli - Tripoli
notes: On 23 August 2020, demonstrators clashed with police forces and the Tripoli Protection Force militia affiliated with GNA as it opened fire indiscriminately on hundreds of demonstrators in the Martyrs Square in Tripoli (Tripoli) who had assembled to denounce government corruption and the degradation of living conditions and to call for presidential and legislative elections. An unspecified number of demonstrators were injured. The militia also arrested at least six demonstrators. [size=hundreds]