Search Results For “ Gaddafi ” 12 articles

  • Libya: Which Fate for Gaddafi’s Henchmen?

    Libya: Which Fate for Gaddafi’s Henchmen?

    On 24 March 2013, about 200 former rebel fighters in Libya besieged the prime minister`s office, demanding that he resign in accordance with a political isolation law banning members of the former regime from political life. Ali Zeidan, the current prime minister of Libya, served as a diplomat u..

  • Delivered into Enemy Hands: US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi's Libya

    Delivered into Enemy Hands: US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi's Libya

    [The following report is the latest from Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the relationship between the US rendition program and the now-deposed Qaddafi regime.]

    When rebel forces overtook Tripoli in August 2011, prison doors were opened and office files exposed, revealing startling new..

  • O.I.L. Media Roundup (27 August)

    O.I.L. Media Roundup (27 August)

    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roun..

  • Beyond Libya's Election

    Beyond Libya's Election

    On July 7, 2012, 1.7 million citizens participated in Libya’s first democratic election with multiple parties in nearly half a century, marking a historic achievement. Approximately 60 percent of Libya’s register..

  • O.I.L. Media Roundup (2 July)

    O.I.L. Media Roundup (2 July)

    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roun..

  • Libya, Impunity, and the International Criminal Court

    Libya, Impunity, and the International Criminal Court

    Last week, four staffers of the International Criminal Court (the ICC) who were part of Seif Gaddafi’s legal defense team were taken into custody in Libya on allegations that they were functioning as a conduit for conspiracy between Gaddafi and his political allies. The ICC is now plunged into a..

  • O.I.L. Media Roundup (18 June)

    O.I.L. Media Roundup (18 June)

     

    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each ..

  • O.I.L. Media Roundup (4 June)

    O.I.L. Media Roundup (4 June)

    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roun..

  • On the Death of Libya's Tyrant

    On the Death of Libya's Tyrant

    An understanding of the context of Muammar Gaddafi’s demise helps explain why it happened as it did. It also has important repercussions for the future of Libya, since his killing raises important questions about Libyan judicial, military and social processes.

    Gaddafi’s rule lasted for ove..

  • Primo Levi in the Year of Assassinations

    Primo Levi in the Year of Assassinations

    Next year will mark twenty-five years since the great Jewish-Italian writer Primo Levi either fell or jumped to his death down the stairwell of his Turin apartment. This year has given us two important cultural products that engage with Levi the chemist, writer, and Auschwitz survivor—a collecti..

  • NATO's "Conspiracy" against the Libyan Revolution

    NATO's "Conspiracy" against the Libyan Revolution

    In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal (19 July 2011), Max Boot— the aptly named neoconservative author and military historian known for his support for “democracy promotion” at the poi..

  • More Than a "Personal Error of Judgment": Seif Gaddafi and the London School of Economics

    More Than a "Personal Error of Judgment": Seif Gaddafi and the London School of Economics

    “Seif is committed to resolving contentious international and domestic issues through dialogue, debate, and peaceful negotiations.” These were the words with which Professor David Held introduced