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Gaddafi might have been arrested by now if the international criminal court's warrant had been sealed, argues Alison Cole, legal officer at the Open Society Justice Initiative.

A public international arrest warrant, as in the case of Gaddafi, appears to create a face-off between justice and politics. However, by definition, international justice is non-negotiable ...

Europe is to use Thursday's Friends of Libya summit in Paris to lift most of the sanctions on Libyan ports and companies, according to

One of the Gaddafi's sons Saadi has offered to surrender according to Abdelhakim Belhaj, the military leader of Libya's National Transitional Council in Tripoli.

Egyptian blogger Zeinobia says there is something wrong about reports that Aisha Gaddafi gave birth to a baby girl shortly after arriving in Algeria.

She points out that Aisha claimed that Nato had killed her four-month-old baby girl Mastoura, in an air raid in April. Zeinobia asks:

"The regime crisis will grow as it leaves no room for a political solution," he said during a telephone call with the Guardian in May.

"People say the opposition is weak but they could run the country better than the group of security men". In a comment piece later that month he argued: "It is paramount that we act swiftly and decisively to erode and completely isolate the Syrian regime ... with a view to moving towards a multiparty democratic system that guarantees the rights of all Syrians and ensures their freedoms and the future of their children."

Other figures on the council say they are waiting for Friday's protests to test the response on the street to the initiative. A video filmed on Monday video in Ghalioun's hometown of Homs, scene of some of the worst violence, shows demonstrators from the neighbourhood of Baba Amr chanting: "The people want Burhan Ghalioun!".

The New York Times points out that Libya "remains divided into fiefs, each controlled by quasi-independent brigades representing different geographic areas of the country".

As promised more transcript from Luke's audio on the chaotic Eid celebrations in Tripoli.

That's a really interesting question. It is almost as if journalist vocabulary hasn't caught up with the fantastically fluid situation here.

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Ayat al-Qurmozi, 20, was sentenced to a year in prison but released in July. The information affairs authority said Qurmozi had been among those declared pardoned by King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa during a speech on Sunday.