Shabab Libya

Libyan Youth Movement
Harket Shabab Libya
حركة شباب ليبيا
Harket Shabab Libya
حركة شباب ليبيا
Founded 2 February 2011
Type Pressure group
Political group
Focus Democracy
Social justice
Free and fair election
Civil resistance
Area served
 Libya
Method Social media
Slogan The Voice of Libyan Youth
Website shabablibya.org

Shabab Libya (alternatively written as shabablibya), also known as the Libyan Youth Movement (Arabic: حركة شباب ليبيا), or LYM for short, is a Libyan Facebook group started in February 2011 to spread awareness on planned protests (17 February) across the country. As the uprising began, the Libyan Youth Movement provided news, images and videos in real time across the world and acted as a unified voice for the Libyan people.

Members of the movement used Twitter as well as Facebook and YouTube to spread news from inside Libya throughout the revolution. As of February 2016, they have over 53,000 followers on their Facebook page and 201,000 followers on Twitter.

Background

The Libyan Youth Movement was founded by Omar Amer and Ayat Mneina on 2 February 2011 in anticipation of a planned uprising on the 17th of February 2011. This quickly caught on as the only Libyan movement in the English language at that time.

The organisation had interviews with several major news outlets during the Libyan Civil War.[1][2]

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