The Libyans Ignored as Qaddafi Gets International Rehab
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Shuaib Alabied cuddles his baby daughter but looks distracted. Clearly his mind is elsewhere.
The former car salesman from Tripoli is seeking asylum in Britain after fleeing Libya with his pregnant wife last year.
He is a Berber, racially different from the Arabs who rule Libya and he once belonged to the Amazighian Party which campaigns for cultural autonomy. The party - like all political groupings in Libya - is banned by the state.
In September 2006, Shuaib was arrested at his garage, taken to the police station and ordered to name other members of his party.
"The officer said to me: 'We have ways of making you talk'," says Shuaib. "They told me someone called Washi was coming."
Washi was a plain clothes officer in the Ain Zara prison in the capital run by Libya's security service. Shuaib describes him as a muscular, tall man with a crew cut. He says he slapped him, dragged him into a cell and subjected him to a brutal rape.
Shuaib's claim is supported by evidence supplied by the Medical Commission for Victims of Torture. He was kept in a dirty cell for three and a half months. When he was eventually freed, he was determined to get out of Libya. So he fled across the desert to Tunisia and then via Turkey reached the UK with his wife.
When the authorities realised Shuaib had escaped, they arrested his father. Mr Alebied is still in prison but nobody knows where since no-one in the family has been able to speak to him since the police took him away.
Read on to learn how the EU might grant these individuals asylum, but pressures them not to sue Libya in international court.
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Posted by: stoneenglish | June 26, 2008 at 07:06 PM
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Posted by: Will | June 27, 2008 at 01:00 PM
Where are you? When you're not writing, it may appear that the middle-east has exploded already! :-) I'm eagerly waiting for more stuff.
Posted by: Dude | June 28, 2008 at 12:33 AM
welcome to libya ! the place of terror since 69
Posted by: mohamed | June 29, 2008 at 03:40 AM
while Hannibal gets into trouble, gaddafi the elder is smarter than he looks...
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Posted by: Onlineflower | August 18, 2008 at 02:33 AM
dang, 2-1/2 months, maybe she's in jail or something, this really stinks.
Posted by: ER | September 14, 2008 at 05:34 AM
It should be well known by now that virtually all governments torture. If Britain allows torture victims to sue Libya, by what moral authority can they refuse to allow the Afghans and Iraqis whom British and U.S. soldiers tortured from suing in Britain as well? Better to just get over this smug idea that only "bad guys" torture their enemies. Its as quaint as the notion that only "terrorists" murder civilians.
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Posted by: mietwagen | March 12, 2009 at 03:22 PM
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Posted by: paper writing help | April 28, 2009 at 04:23 AM
Among other things, the Amazigh parties* are pro-Israeli... you can see the Libyan counterintelligence services frowning on that.
* Morocco has one too. Amazighs, or Berbers, are all over Saharan Africa and there should be others.
Posted by: Arthur Borges | July 05, 2009 at 03:26 PM