Killing of Libyan human rights lawyer shocks many

Sally

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And all this woman was trying to do was to help people. What cowards to kill her!!!

Killing of Libyan human rights lawyer shocks many

Human rights advocate Salwa Bugaighis, a lawyer who played an active part in Libya's 2011 revolution, was shot and killed by unknown assailants at her home in Benghazi.

LAURA KING

Officials say slain Libyan human rights lawyer was attacked by masked men with guns and knivesU.S. ambassador to Libya calls killing of human rights lawyer Salwa Bougaighis 'cowardly, despicable'Even in violent times in a violent city, the death of Salwa Bougaighis had the power to horrify.

The prominent human rights lawyer, 47, was attacked by masked men with guns and knives who stormed the walled compound where she lived in the eastern city of Benghazi, according to officials and news reports. She died a short time later in a hospital of a gunshot wound to the head, according to Libya’s state news agency, and had also been stabbed.
This light cannot be extinguished.
- Deborah Jones, U.S. ambassador to Libya

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Killing of Libyan human rights lawyer shocks many*-*Los Angeles Times
 

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