In Libya, Gaddafi’s former torturers have had a dramatic reversal of fortune… One night last September, a prisoner named Naji Najjar was brought, blindfolded and handcuffed, to an abandoned military base on the outskirts of Tripoli. A group of young men in camouflage pushed him into a dimly lit interrogation room and forced [...]
New legislation criminalises free speech and those who ‘damage’ the revolution… Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) should immediately revoke a new law that bans insults against the people of Libya or its institutions, Human Rights Watch said today. The law also prohibits criticism of the country’s 2011 revolution and glorification of the deposed [...]
Continue reading …A verdict is imminent in the case of Charles Taylor, the first former head of state to be judged by an international court since the Nuremberg trials… The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone will make judicial history today, giving its verdict on Charles Taylor, Liberia’s former president. He is accused of fuelling [...]
Continue reading …In a bad-tempered audio message on a Syrian satellite channel, Aisha Gaddafi said her father is alive and well, and fighting with a weapon alongside his sons.
Continue reading …CNN’s Ben Wedeman tours Mummar Gaddafi’s palace in Sabha, complete with huge private swimming pool.
Continue reading …Gaddafi’s adopted daughter, who he claimed was killed in a US air strike when she was a baby, is seen as a three year old in home movie footage. The video, taken sometime in the late 1980s, shows the Gaddafi family camping in fields outside Tripoli.
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