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A Libyan court has sentenced the son of former Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to death.
Lindsey Hilsum
The Libyan human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis has been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in Benghazi on the day of the country’s general election.
Niger extradites Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi to Tripoli, where the Libyan government say he is now in custody.
Lindsey Hilsum
A year after Gadaffi’s capture and death, International Editor Lindsey Hilsum looks at the legacy of his rule and the prospects for the country since his demise.
Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum on the links between the conflict in Mali and the demise of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya.
Lindsey Hilsum
Libya’s first post-Gaddafi elections are going ahead, but is that wise given the amount of weapons in private hands, asks Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
Lindsey Hilsum
I went to see The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen’s take on Gaddafi, ready to be offended, but in the end I just laughed. The plot was bonkers and the jokes variable, but after 18 months immersed in the horrors perpetrated by Gaddafi, it was good to see him diminished by humour.
The demise of Colonel Gaddafi was a stone cast into a pool – a huge wave rather than a ripple has hit Libya’s neighbour, Mali.
Libyan officials confirm Abdullah al-Senussi, Colonel Gaddafi’s head of secret police, has been arrested in West Africa after fleeing Tripoli last year.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son and one-time heir apparent of toppled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will move to a prison in Tripoli within weeks, and face trial in Libya.
Fighters loyal to Libya’s overthrown leader Muammar Gaddafi took control of a town south east of the capital on Monday, flying their green flags in defiance of the country’s fragile new government.
Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the surrender of Abdullah Senussi, the most feared enforcer of Colonel Gaddafi’s regime.
As a mob awaits him on the runway, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi veers between fear of being lynched and bravado at meeting the same fate as his father, a taped conversation with his captors reveals.
The arrest of Muammar Gaddafi’s son and heir apparent Saif al-Islam in the southern desert is a chance for the Zintan fighters to redeem themselves, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor says he has had “informal contact” with Libyan fugitive Saif Gaddafi over his surrender to the war crimes court.
