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Libyan human rights activist Hassan al-Amin has been exiled twice, once by Moammar Gadhafi and now again by the miltias that ousted Gadhafi

For decades, Hassan Al-Amin toiled in exile, pushing for human rights and democratic reform in his native Libya. With the overthrow of Ghaddaffi, he headed home, only to be forced to flee again. Now he's back in exile and worried Libya is in the crosshairs of ISIS....
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The Current23:43Meet Libyan human rights activist Hassan al-Amin, exiled twice - September 9, 2014
For decades, Hassan Al-Amin toiled in exile, pushing for human rights and democratic reform in his native Libya. With the overthrow of Ghaddaffi, he headed home, only to be forced to flee again. Now he's back in exile and worried Libya is in the crosshairs of ISIS.

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Hassan al-Amin, center, during a protest near the Trocadero plaza in Paris, Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. The
group were protesting the visit of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, and his alleged discriminating policy
against the Berber ethnic group in Libya. (AP/Thibault Camus)

What we see now in Libya is that everybody can do whatever they want. It doesn't seem there are many looking beyond their own interests and their own gains.Hassan al-Amin, Libyan human rights activist

Four years ago, Hassan al-Amin arrived in his hometown of Misrata, Libya for the first time in nearly 30 years. He arrived clandestinely since the city was still under siege by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi.

Hassan al-Amin had been living in exile in London, England, pushing for human rights and democratic reform in Libya.

The fall of Gadhafi and the rise of a democratically elected parliament was supposed to be the culmination of everything he'd worked for. But now, three years after the fall of Gadhafi, Libya teeters on the edge of failed state status, some say a breeding ground for radical islamists in ISIS. Hassan al-Amin is in exile again ... pushed out this time by some of the very people he worked with to oppose Gadhafi.


Hassan al-Amin is now back living in exile in London, England.


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