Libya's purge of former Gaddafi officials reveals growing power of militias | GlobalPost: "A few hours earlier, the new law had claimed a political casualty: chief of parliament Mohammed al-Megarif, who had served as Libya’s ambassador to India in 1980 before founding an opposition group in exile. In his resignation speech, al-Megarif said he made his decisions “out of respect for the legitimacy and institutionalization of democracy.” But the law by which he was abiding, he added, had been passed under threat of force from militia members.
Human Rights Watch and other critics have said the law is too sweeping, and Shater’s story in particular is useful as a prism for understanding some Libyans’ view of what is happening in their country today. He is a former journalist who published newspapers in English and Arabic during the reign of King Idris, which ended in 1969 with a coup d’etat led by Muammar Gaddafi. After the coup, Gaddafi’s revolutionary court gave Shater a one-year (suspended) jail sentence and a hefty fine for being part of the old regime."
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