Lindsey Hilsum
18-year-old Libyan civil society activist Tawfik Bensaud was killed on Friday, probably by Islamists. His friends are now struggling to keep faith in the democratic state they dream of.
Lindsey Hilsum
Libya’s rival factions are called Dawn and Dignity. But fighting means it has little chance of achieving the new dawn or the life of dignity the 2011 revolution promised.
Lindsey Hilsum
I don’t suppose the men who attacked the Al Sha’ab shrine in Tripoli with jackhammers and a bulldozer on Saturday have heard of William Dowsing, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum recalls a conversation with the man at the centre of Libyan rendition claims on how close the CIA and MI6 became with Libyan intelligence.
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Matt Frei visits an exhibition of art normally confined to the offices and homes of British officials around the world with its curator the historian Simon Schama.
Lindsey Hilsum witnesses scenes more in keeping with a funfair than Tripoli’s Martyr’s Square as families turn out to celebrate the death of the despotic Muammar Gaddafi
As post-liberation euphoria on the streets of Tripoli starts to fade, residents of the Libyan capital are losing patience with their rustic ‘liberators’. International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports.
Normal life is returning to Tripoli, blogs Lindsey Hilsum, back in Libya to research a book on recent events in the country. Petrol is now plentiful and the population’s attention has turned to the national team’s performance in football’s African Nations Cup.
Speeding along the road towards Tripoli, on 2 September, some graffiti caught my eye. It was scrawled in English, on a wall in the town of Zahwiya, where the uprising against Gaddafi had been so brutally put down. The message was exquisite in its simplicity. It read: “WE ARE NOT RATS.”
Amid reports that Colonel Gaddafi’s troops have started to pull out, Bani Walid and its approaches remain insecure. It’s noon, Sunday, and the former Libyan rebels – who now call themselves the Libyan National Army (LNA) – are still negotiating with the Warfallah tribal leaders in Bani Walid over the surrender of the town.
Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the exodus of civilians doing everything they can to flee Tripoli before war arrives.
The difficulty of untangling stories of bombing in Tripoli – from our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, in Tripoli.
As Jonathan Rugman leaves Libya, he remains concerned about the civilians left behind in what he fears will be a long drawn-out conflict.
This bright spring morning in Tripoli I set myself the challenge of buying a watch with Colonel Gaddafi’s face on it. My departing producer had acquired several as souvenirs for friends back home. A Gaddafi watch might make a novelty Christmas present, perhaps. It might even become a collectors’ item, if Libya’s rebels fulfil their…
Libya’s Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Kaim tells Jonathan Rugman the continued presence of Colonel Gaddafi should not pose a problem as far as reconciling the east and west of the country is concerned.