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In His First Interview, Saif al-Islam Says He Has Not Been Given Access to a Lawyer

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Saif al-Islam tells Human Rights Watch’s Fred Abrahams he has not seen a lawyer since he was captured.

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The guards in the remote Libyan town of Zintan called their prisoner, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, “our black box.” The second-oldest son of Muammar Gaddafi knew the secrets of Libya’s past, they said: Gaddafi’s deals with foreign governments and companies, the whereabouts of still-missing prisoners, the details of crimes committed during...

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