In its coverage and comment on the violent uprising in Libya, Open Democracy has published old articles to offer an insight into the regime.

The news website has been re-releasing previously published articles to great effect.

Open Democracy has published an article that was originally written the mark Gaddafi’s 40-year control of the country. The site has also republished a 2006 article on Libya’s decision to convict five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor of infecting child patients in Benghazi with the HIV virus.