Between 400 and 500 mourners gathered at Benghazi’s Hawari cemetery today to bury human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis whose brutal murder on Wednesday has reverberated across the country.
Bugaighis’ body travelled from her family home where it had rested since yesterday to the graveyard in Hawari where a brief ceremony was held before the burial. Bugaighis would have been buried, by Islamic rite, yesterday but time was given to her sons to return from Jordan. Bugaighis and her husband, Essam Al-Ghariani, who is missing had been staying in Jordan but had returned to Benghazi to vote in Wednesday’s elections and for him to take up his duties as a newly elected Benghazi municipal councillor…
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