Libya: Case Filed Against Libya Over South African Journalist Killed in 2011

Washington — Closure has been elusive for Penny Sukhraj-Hammerl for more than a decade.

Her husband, South African photojournalist Anton Hammerl, was shot and killed in the Libyan desert on April 5, 2011, by pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces.

Since then, the questions have outnumbered the answers, and justice has remained a far-off hope, Sukhraj-Hammerl, also a journalist, told VOA from London.

At the time of Hammerl’s killing, Libyan authorities claimed he was in their custody alongside three other…