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Facing the Dictator

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Abdul Hafiz Ghoga is a Libyan human rights lawyer, who rose to prominence as the spokesman for the National Transitional Council and later as the Council's Vice Chairman. As Chairman of the Benghazi Bar Association, he defended political prisoners.

Ghoga met former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi for the first time on 6 February 2011, only eleven days before the popular revolution. Gaddafi had Ghoga and three other lawyers from Benghazi be brought to a meeting with him in his tent in Tripoli.

The meeting lasted for ninety minutes. Also present was Abdullah Senussi, Gaddafi's brother-in-law and head of his secret service. The four human rights lawyers from Benghazi called for freedom of the press, freedom of opinion, and a constitution.

After the discussion with Gaddafi, who, according to Ghoga's words, was clearly irritated at the demands, the four lawyers from Benghazi decided to call for a "Day of Rage" in Benghazi on 17 February 2011. This was the beginning of the Libyan revolution.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Hakim_Ghoga

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Ten Myths About the Libyan Revolution
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Juan Cole sets the record straight on the revolution in Libya:

I have taken a lot of heat for my support of the [Libyan] revolution and of the UN-authorized intervention by the Arab League and NATO that kept it from being crushed. [...] I agree with President Obama and his citation of Reinhold Niebuhr: You cannot protect all victims of mass murder everywhere all the time. But where you can do some good, you should do it, even if you cannot do all good. [...] Given the controversies about the revolution, it is worthwhile reviewing the myths about the Libyan Revolution that led so many observers to make so many fantastic or just mistaken assertions about it.

http://www.juancole.com/2011/08/top-ten-myths-about-the-libya-war.html
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Libyan Minders Snatch Rape Victim

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A shocking scene occurred in Tripoli on Saturday when a gun was pointed at Sky News after a woman tried to tell foreign journalists about being raped and tortured by Libyan officials.

A visibly very distressed woman burst into the breakfast room of the hotel where we are staying and attempted to speak out about an ordeal at the hands of Gaddafi supporters.

We were having breakfast in our hotel when the woman broke in and said she'd been picked up at a checkpoint in the city. She claimed she had been held for two days, and that she had been raped and tortured.

As journalists tried to speak to her, things got out of control and the police minders waded in, trying to physically shut her up and stop her talking. The woman was gagged by hand and taken away by minders.

In the commotion a gun was pointed towards the Sky News team in an attempt to stop them filming. A team from another news organisation had their camera smashed in front of them.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201009115960663

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