25 March 2011
Qais El Halali
Shooting
Qais El Halali, a Libyan cartoonist who became famous in Benghazi for his anti-Gaddafi graffiti and cartoons during the conflict in the country was killed by gunmen believed to be Gaddafi’s agents who stopped the car he war he was travelling in with friends and shot him several times.
Qais had received deaths threats from the regime in Tripoli and his friends believed he was being watched. He was killed shortly after finishing his last cartoon at the Benghazi’s main round about where he had painted Col Gaddafi being hanged by rebels.
