Plates of hummus, grilled lamb chops and warm pita covered nearly every inch of the dining table at Abu Salim Middle Eastern Grill as Oscar Cuadra pondered which dish he wanted to dig into first. His ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
TRIPOLI, LibyaTRIPOLI, Libya — When Said Abdullah arrived in Libya’s notorious Abu Salim prison in 1996, he said he was “welcomed with blows and torture” for membership in an Islamist group. He was ...
An account of a bloody crushing of a prison mutiny by the Libyan security forces in 1996, resulting in the estimated deaths of 1,200 inmates. In the summer of 1996, stories began to filter out of ...
BENGHAZI, Libya -- Every month for nearly 10 years, Ezzedin abu Azza's family traveled to the gates of Abu Salim prison in Tripoli to deliver a care package of clothes, food and medicine, not knowing ...
TRIPOLI, Libya — “Welcome to hell,” a Libyan prison guard told several new inmates. “This is Abu Salim.” The words sent chills through Dr. Ahmed’s already badly beaten body. He had been helping an Al ...
The Tripoli Court of Appeal has postponed the trial of Abdullah al-Senussi, the former head of military intelligence under ...
In Libya, thousands of rebel fighters and political prisoners freed from Moammar Gadhafi's notorious prisons are making their way home. But tens of thousands more are still missing. Anxious relatives ...