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Libya Releases Prominent Sufi Leader After Year-Long Detention

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Sheikh Al-Bijou was forcibly taken from his religious center (zawiya) in the Bouatni district of Benghazi in February 2024. Sheikh Muftah Al-Bijou, head of the Qadiriyya Sufi order in Libya, has been released after more than a year in detention. The news was confirmed by the Supreme Council of Islamic Sufism in Libya. In a statement marking his release, the Sufi Council welcomed his freedom and reiterated its condemnation of arbitrary detentions…

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