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Libya Elections
In this March 2014 image released by the National Dialogue Preparatory Commission, Salwa Bugaighis, lawyer and rights activist, poses for a photograph during a meeting in Tripoli, Libya. One of Libya’s most prominent female activists was assassinated in the restive eastern city of Benghazi when gunmen stormed her house, the state news agency reported Thursday, in slaying that stunned human rights advocates. Bugaighis, was at the forefront in the 2011 uprising against dictator Moammar Gadhafi. She was among the most outspoken voices against militiamen and Islamic extremists who have run rampant in the country since Gadhafi’s fall. (photo credit: AP Photo/National Dialogue Preparatory Commission)
June 27, 2014, 8:30 am
Prominent female pro-democracy activist killed in Libya
Salwa Bugaighis slain in her Benghazi home hours after voting in parliamentary elections
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Mahmoud Jibril speaks to the media at National Forces Allies headquarters in Tripoli, Libya on July 8 (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)
July 18, 2012, 7:35 am
Final Libya election results put liberal alliance ahead of Brotherhood
Balance of power lies with the 120 seats set aside for independents
Libyans celebrate in Martyrs' Square in Tripoli after voting in the first democratic election in decades in July (photo credit: AP/Abdel Magid Al Fergany)
July 9, 2012, 12:21 am
Islamists take a blow in Libyan elections
Preliminary results indicate liberal parties are leading the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Libyan men hold their elections ID cards while celebrating election day in Tripoli on July 7, 2012. (photo credit: Manu Brabo/AP)
July 8, 2012, 2:33 am
Libyans vote in free elections for the first time in nearly 50 years
Violence at some polling stations underscores challenges still to be faced
July 2, 2012, 1:29 am
Libya: Militiamen storm election commission
Mob sets voting slips on fire in Benghazi one week ahead of first vote in five decades
Armored Egyptian military vehicles block the road outside of the Ministry of Defense in Cairo, Friday. (photo credit: AP/Ahmed Hammad)
May 5, 2012, 3:02 pm
In Egypt, the unrest is spreading
Palestinian hunger-strikers touch a chord, Libya nears elections
By Jed Halfon
Rival Libyan militias clash in Tripoli on February 7, 2012 (photo credit: CC BY Magharebia/Flikr)
From the WebApril 3, 2012, 9:46 am
Fractured Libyan political landscape sees militia leaders turn statesmen
NY Times: Armed groups remaking themselves into political parties threaten to stall the fledgling, post-revolutionary democracy
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