On 1 November, the Attorney General’s Office ordered the detention of the Tripoli-based Acting Minister of Education, Ali Al-Abed, and the Director General of the Curriculum and Educational Research Centre pending further investigation for harming the public interest and violating the right to education. They are being investigated due to irregularities in the administrative and financial procedures related to the signed contracts for printing textbooks for the 2025/2026 academic year, as well as negligence in the obligation to provide textbooks to two million students within the timeframe stipulated in the approved education strategy.
