Reply #30: Sky News Tracks Down 'Abducted' Girl In Tripoli

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1:28pm UK, Wednesday September 14, 2011

Lisa Holland, foreign affairs correspondent


Sky News has tracked down a young woman who was taken from England by her Libyan father without her mother's consent 19 years ago.


Ayesha Shirif, 22, was born in England but lives with her father Khaled in Tripoli.


But when the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi began she saw an opportunity to try to escape in the chaos to be with her mother in England.


It was a desperate attempt that failed and she has not been allowed to communicate with her mother since.

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(Khaled) has always said he wanted Ayesha to be raised a Muslim and to live in a Muslim country.


But he has always felt confident knowing under Colonel Gaddafi there was no law forcing him to do anything else.


Video (2:57) at link:
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16068975