Archive: libya
13th May 2013
Armed groups withdrew from Libya’s foreign and justice ministries at the weekend, ending a siege which lasted almost a fortnight, and bringing some respite – if only temporarily – in the country’s political crisis.
An agreement to call off the siege came after the armed groupshad been confronted on… Read more
29th November 2012
A Libyan militia is continuing to hold 12 allegedly gay men, despite saying it intends to hand them over to the Ministry of Justice.
The 12 were seized at a party last Thursday by vigilantes from the Private Deterrent Force – part of the Nawasi Brigade which is Tripoli's largest Islamist militia.
A… Read more
28th September 2012
Photograph of the abducted men posted on Facebook
The Libyan militia that abducted 12 allegedly gay men at a party in Tripoli last week is planning to hand them over to the Ministry of Justice, the Libya Herald reports, allaying earlier fears that the men would be killed.
A vigilante group… Read more
26th September 2012
A vigilante group calling itself the Private Deterrent Force claims to have seized 12 gay men in Libya and is reportedly threatening to kill them.
A photograph (above) posted on the group's Facebook page shows the men with their heads covered and their hands up, facing a wall.
A note with the… Read more
21st September 2012
There was a flurry of media interest earlier this year over women's participation in the Libyan elections. In May, Najat Kikhia, who teaches statistics at Benghazi University, became the only female member of the city's council and the first woman elected to public office. She secured more votes… Read more
30th April 2012
Shokri Ghanem, the man in charge of Libya's highly corrupt oil industry during the last five years of Gaddafi's rule, was found dead yesterday – floating in the river Danube near his home in Vienna. His family have suggested that he fell in the river after suffering a heart attack, though foul… Read more
28th April 2012
Libya's largest oil refinery, in Ras Lanuf, has been closed since the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi and will remain closed for at least another month while the company that operates it is restructured, the Tripoli Post reports.
Behind this rather bland announcement is a controversy that has been… Read more
10th March 2012
At a court case in Britain on Friday, the Libyan government won possession of a $16 million house said to belong to Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saadi.
The luxurious London property (shown here, inside and out, in a set of photographs on the Telegraph's website), was acquired in 2009 by Capitana Seas… Read more
9th February 2012
You may have been wondering what happened to Lizzie Phelan, the British "independent journalist" who reported Colonel Gaddafi's numerous successes against the rebels in Libya last year.
Well, the fall of Gaddafi didn't bring an end to her endeavours. Last month she re-surfaced in Syria, once again… Read more
17th December 2011
Tracking down the ill-gotten gains of fallen dictators is rarely an easy task but there are hopes that a luxurious property in London, thought to be worth around $16 million, may provide a breakthrough in the case of the Gaddafi family.
Libya's new government is seeking legal ownership of the house… Read more
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