(MENAFN) An order preventing men and women ages 18-45 in eastern Libya from travelling abroad without first obtaining security clearances is being met with outrage.
The regional military governor, Abdul Razzak Al-Naduri, insists the order was given to stop people joining terrorist groups in other countries.
It comes only two days after the suspension of a widely ridiculed decree that banned women under 60 from leaving eastern Libya unaccompanied. This was also for "security purposes" and not religiously motivated, Naduri said.
The new order has provoked fury on social media and among Libyans. "Are we living in Gaddafi"s time again? This is not freedom, this is not liberation," Abdullah, a teacher from Benghazi, told MEE.
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