The Internal Security Agency is a security institution affiliated with the executive authority in the country. It was established and has been operating for over seventy years. The agency is primarily responsible, according to existing legislation, for preserving the state’s entity, protecting its security and political, social, and economic systems, combating terrorism, and countering destructive phenomena, risks, and threats that target the religious, social, and cultural values of Libyan society. The agency performs its duties within the framework of the law, in accordance with the Libyan Penal Code and procedural laws, adhering to the principle of “no crime and no punishment except by law.”

Amid the crises our beloved country is currently facing—growing influx of foreigners, and the spread of activities undermining Islamic Sharia such as atheism, Christian proselytism, promotion of sexual deviation, and moral corruption under the labels of freedoms and human rights propagated by international organizations—the agency has mobilized its trained and qualified personnel and implemented plans to confront, monitor, suppress, and combat this massive wave of foreign intelligence activities targeting the values of Libyan society. The agency has identified two main axes of action:

First Axis: Detecting these crimes, exposing those behind them, combating them, and referring them to the judiciary and competent local authorities.

Second Axis: Countering the backlash from international intelligence agencies that exploit their indirect arms and means—represented by international organizations claiming to protect human rights—to attack the Internal Security Agency.

Given the agency’s remarkable success in combating these crimes affecting the state’s entity (which will be summarized later), this has provoked the concern of foreign countries seeking to achieve their malicious objectives.