IBRAHIM-AL-MEDHAWI

"For me, the revolution began in the 1960'€™s. I was still at school when I got involved with student anti-royalist protests, during one of which I was wounded. A few months after the 1969 coup against Gaddafi, I attended meetings with other students who were already feeling let down by his regime. In the 1980'€™s, a group of friends and I wrote anti-revolutionary manifestos. In 1984 I was arrested and imprisoned for a year for making anti-revolutionary remarks and was later forbidden to leave the country. As a former revolutionary, I'm proud that Libya brought down Gaddafi. February'€™s revolution is a great historical event, like the overthrowing of Kind Idriss. In my day we had high hopes for our country, wanting to make it an important Mediterranean tourist destination. I'm still waiting to see what the expectations of the Libyan people today are."