Angry parents assaulted the medical staff at the Children’s Hospital in Benghazi last April while awaiting medical tests and treatment with their children. The desperate parents opened fire in the hospital corridor without taking into account the sick children present. [ibimage==342==Small_Image==none==self==null] A room in the Republic Hospital in Benghazi This violent reaction came after several […]

Sitting in his office in downtown Tobruk, in eastern Libya, 50 year-old Ibrahim el Jrary organizes the city merchants’ transactions. Despite the country’s tension and instability, el Jrary remains hopeful that the future of trade in the new Libya will improve without the random decisions and confusion that hindered it before the revolution.  Sitting in […]

About 170 kilometres to the south of Brega near Zaltun field, there appears to be a lake casting a picturesque natural image.  That lake is actually a pool of oil waste that has spilled from Sirte Oil and Gas Company. The field, where the Libyan state drilled the first cost-effective oil well in the early […]

The National Transitional Council (NTC) passed Law 37 this past May, which punishes the glorification of either Muammar Gaddafi or his sons, and imprisons critics of the February 2011 revolution.  While the law has been compared to German legislation that criminalized the idolatry of Adolf Hitler, various human rights groups and civil rights attorneys say […]