Hala Misrati

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Hala Misrati (* in Tripoli ) is a Libyan television presenter. During the civil war in 2011, she positioned herself on state television as a radical supporter of dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi and insulted opposition members. Towards the end of the uprising, she was imprisoned by the Libyan National Liberation Army (NLA).

Life

Misrati attended the University of Tripoli (Al-Fateh University), where she completed her bachelor's degree in law in 2003. In 2007 she published a collection of romantic short stories called The Moon Has Another Face .

In 2008 she started working for Libyan Jamahiriyah Broadcasting Corporation (LJBC), the state television broadcaster in Libya. There she was also a spokesperson during the civil war in Libya in 2011 and moderated numerous positive contributions about the then dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi. She had a very idiosyncratic style of moderation. She interrupted her reports with long improvised speeches in which she praised the Gaddafi government and insulted the revolutionaries. She described Iman al-Obeidi , a lawyer who claimed to have been raped in front of the international media, in a ten-minute monologue as a "whore" and a "liar".

Internationally known was an excerpt from August 21, 2011 in which Misrati announced with a pistol in hand that she was ready to defend the station until her death. The next day, the station was captured by the Libyan National Liberation Army (NLA) and Misrati was arrested and imprisoned.

In February 2012, al-Arabiya reported that Misrati had been found dead in her cell. The NLA, on the other hand, presented a video that showed them alive.

Misrati left Libya after her release. From 2012 to 2014 it was advertised on the Libyan Interpol wanted list for wanted persons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Khaled Mahmoud: Hala Misrati: The rise and fall of Gaddafi's mouthpiece. In: asharq alawsat. August 23, 2011, accessed February 20, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b Michail Hengstenberg: Gaddafi's voice is silent. In: Spiegel Online . February 19, 2012, accessed February 20, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b Gareth Finighan: Captured alive: Pro-Gaddafi female presenter who brandished gun live on air and swore she'd die before being taken by rebels. In: Daily Mail . August 25, 2011, accessed February 20, 2012 .
  4. ↑ TV presenter denies death report. In: ORF . February 19, 2012, accessed February 20, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Mustafa Fetouri, Libya's 'wanted' list does not help to heal old wounds , The National, January 14, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Misrati, Hala
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Libyan TV presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Tripoli