
Azeddine was imprisoned in the high-security jail on the August 21, 1986, after taking part in a failed attempt to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi in Green Square, Tripoli. It was the first time a group of civilians had tried to assassinate the dictator and, after Gaddafi learned of the plot, he refused to speak publicly in the square until February 2011—25 years later and two weeks into the revolution that eventually toppled him.

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