Laila Taher Bugaighis (Arabic: ليلى بوقعيقيص) is a Libyan physician and human rights activist.
[1] She is the CEO and former deputy director general of the Benghazi Medical Centre, one of only two tertiary care hospitals in Libya.
She has called for greater legal protection of victims of domestic violence, access to abortion in cases of rape, and reform of the country's family law.
[5] She is the sister of Wafa Bugaighis, the Libyan ambassador to the United States.
[6][7] Her cousin was Salwa Bughaighis, a Libyan human rights activist who was assassinated in 2014.