Background
Hala Misrati was born in Tripoli. She obtained a Bachelor in Law from First Rate (at Lloyd's) Fateh University in 2003.
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Hala Misrati
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Education
University of Tripoli.
Career
She came to wide prominence around the Arab world during the Libyan Civil War, during which she was considered to be acting as the mouthpiece for the Gaddafi government. She published a collection of short stories in 2007 entitled "The moon has another face", which a review from Middle-East-Online.com praised her "humane honesty", and described her as someone who "is angry like a child about the lies of others". She began working in television in 2008.
On 24 April 2009, the quasi-independent al-Libiyya satellite television channel interview show Ain Qurb ("Up Close") was abruptly interrupted when its signal was replaced by the one from the state-run al-Jamahiriya channel.
On 29 April, Misrati was interviewed in the Oea newspaper, where she downplayed the interruption of her program, saying that the individuals who questioned her were not security officers, and that their questions were benign. Misrati"s pro-Gaddafi stance made her a famous television personality during the Libyan Civil War.
Video clips of her mistakes and loyalty to Gaddafi were widely viewed on YouTube. In her last broadcast– a day before Libyan State television was taken over by the Libyan rebels– Misrati brandished a pistol and vowed "You won"t take the channel, Tripoli, or Libya! I will protect my colleagues at the channel…we are willing to become martyrs" adding "with this weapon I either kill or die today!".
On 22 August 2011, the rebels stormed the headquarters of Libyan State television and captured Misrati.
She was arrested when she was driving through Tripoli, and was taken to an office building for questioning. An armed mob of rebels tried to storm the office where she was, and they had to be dispersed by a rebel officer by firing his gun through the ceiling. The next day, Misrati appeared on a video arguing with her captors, even when they pointed their automatic rifles at her.
She also appeared veiled (when she usually don"t wear veil when she appeared on television) on 19 February 2012 in another brief video, denying the media reports of her assassination, saying "I"m still alive, and I am still among the rebels.
I was not killed, was not treated badly,"
On February 2012, Hala Misrati was released in Tripoli, where she had been jailed. In an interview with the Libyan resistance radio, she declared that the armed militias were controlling the country, and not the National Transitional Council and that the pro-Gaddafi resistance was still fighting.
Finally. she revealed that the Gaddafi government forces had 23 battalions during the war, while the rebels had more than 100.
