Slightly under 24 hours from Tulsa
When I list the cities on my book tour, American friends all exclaim: “Tulsa???” as if I’d said I was taking detour via the moon reports Lindsey Hilsum.
When I list the cities on my book tour, American friends all exclaim: “Tulsa???” as if I’d said I was taking detour via the moon reports Lindsey Hilsum.
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on her forthcoming US bok tour – and a bad case of Pre-Book Tour Nerves.
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.
Don’t come to this blog for fixed views, and paint-by-numbers journalism which seeks out the interviews and facts to fit a pre-conceived thesis.
Prime Minister David Cameron rejects calls for a new investigation into the conviction of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in the wake of his death.
Reports say that Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing has died of cancer at the age of 60.
Channel 4 looks at the timeline of events leading from the Lockerbie bombing to the death of Abdul Basset al-Megrahi
Abdel Hakim Belhadj says he is taking legal action following allegations the former foreign secretary personally permitted his illegal rendition.
Libyan officials confirm Abdullah al-Senussi, Colonel Gaddafi’s head of secret police, has been arrested in West Africa after fleeing Tripoli last year.
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.
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.
Two former Libyan detainees who claim that British spies were involved in their rendition and torture are suing former director of counter-terrorism at MI6, according to their lawyers.
Médecins Sans Frontières tells Channel 4 News its doctors have been “patching up detainees in between torture sessions” in Misrata’s prisons. The charity is suspending its work there as a result.
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.
Senior UK security officials and ministers could be in the frame as the Metropolitan Police begins a new wider investigation into allegations of rendition in Libya, as Simon Israel reports.