Thousands protest against Lockerbie appeals ruling
Thousands of Libyans marched peacefully today against a Scottish appeals court decision to uphold the conviction of a former Libyan intelligence agent in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
Surrounded by anti-riot police, the demonstrators, most of them students, gathered in front of the United Nations office in the capital Tripoli and in a statement handed to a UN representative called on the international body to "interfere to save the political hostage Abdel-Basset al-Megrahi".
