Island 92 – KSBS-FM

A year ago, my colleagues and I organized an unprecedented news conference in Tripoli to release our report assessing Libya's human rights record and steps toward reform. We invited victims of government abuses to join us and speak about what they had suffered. Seif Islam Kadafi, one of the sons of Libya's ruler, was primarily responsible for persuading officials to allow us to hold the news conference. As the semi-sanctioned internal voice for reform, his "private" foundation had pushed publicly for changing the country's laws and freeing political prisoners, and it helped establish two private newspapers that sometimes criticized government policies.