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Tripoli underground

In this four-part series of films we meet the 'accidental activists' who, working anonymously, sought to defy the Gaddafi regime through any means they could: from joining the 'electronic army' fighting the battle online, to orchestrating many acts of passive defiance and civil disobedience. We talk to those who, at great risk to their personal safety, dared to defy the 42-year rule of Colonel Gaddafi. On the first anniversary of the February 17 uprising, their stories of resistance can now be told
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    In the last of our series we meet Mervat and Niz Mahni who along with friends and family formed the Free Generation Movement, orchestrating many acts of civil disobedience

  • Libya uprising, one year on: Ayat Mneina – video

    In the third of our series, Ayat Mneina, a Canadian-Libyan who was living in London last February, explains her part in the Libyan uprising

  • Libya uprising, one year on: Abu Salim prison tales - video

    IT consultant Ziad Lahib shows us round the notorious Tripoli jail where he was imprisoned for three months

  • Libya uprising one year on: remembering the Zawiyah massacre - video

    In the first of four videos to mark the start of the Libyan uprising a year ago, Dr Mohammed takes us back to the scene of a brutal assault on Zawiyah - including the attack on the mosque in Martyr Square - where an estimated 600 people are believed to have been killed by the Gaddafi regime

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