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Libyan’s election officials expect to announce results of the country’s first free national election in 60 years on Monday night, with a liberal coalition claiming an early lead.
A liberal coalition takes an early lead in vote counting on Sunday but with 3,700 candidates and more than 130 parties it is too early to call. Preliminary results are expected Monday.
Lindsey Hilsum
For Wanise Elisawi this was a special day. Incarcerated for 19 years in Abu Salim, Gaddafi’s most notorious gaol, an eye-witness to the 1996 massacre in which 1,270 men were killed, he was on the brink of tears as he cast his ballot, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
As Libyans take to the polls for the first time in more than half a century, Channel 4 News looks at some of the 130 political parties standing for election.
Lindsey Hilsum
“Interestingly, some westerners also want the east to have more power, because the region is solidly anti-Gaddafi, whereas in the west there’s still some residual support for the late Brother Leader.”
Lindsey Hilsum
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on how the militias who helped overthrow Gaddafi, are now terrorising Libya’s people.
Lindsey Hilsum
Are Syrians paying the price for Libyans’ freedom given that one year on, it seems unlikely that such international intervention will be contemplated again.
Syria blogger Sakhr Al-Makhadhi considers the options as the UN struggles to find a credible plan for ending the violence.
The publication online of documents seized at Osama bin Laden’s house underlines the gulf between western and jihadi thinking.
Two British journalists detained in Libya and accused of being spies were reporting on atrocities meted out against black people by the same forces that arrested them.
The international community learned a lot of lessons from Libya, and there are regrets. Lindsey Hilsum is in Moscow on the first anniversary of the revolution.
Jon Snow
Jon Snow blogs on the situation in Syria and why it seems to be putting al-Qaeda and the West on the same side.
While the Syrian government bombards Homs, what is the international community doing? Channel 4 News looks at what is happening on the surface and behind the scenes – and why.
Thousands of people are being illegally jailed and abused by Libya’s ex-rebels, a UN report says. Channel 4 News speaks to a Ghanaian woman who has seen friends detained or die trying to flee Libya.
MI6 had struck up such a budding relationship with Libyan Intelligence in the preceding years that when they wanted to kill our people earlier this year, we seem to have known about it. Which illustrates a point the spooks often like to make: that it is in Britain’s national interests to do business with people we don’t like.