Saturday, August 29, 2009

Lockerbie: was Libya's al‑Megrahi the scape-goat in a grave miscarriage of justice?

Abdelbaset Ali al‑Megrahi was released from prison in Scotland and returned to Libya last week. 

He was convicted in 2001 of murdering 270 people when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded above the Scottish town of Lockerbie 13 years earlier. 

Yet there is a huge amount of evidence to support Megrahi’s contention that he is innocent.

Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed on Flight 103, has branded Megrahi’s conviction “one of the gravest miscarriages of justice in history”. More...

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