Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, 52, who is serving a life sentence for his role in anti-government protests last year, has been denied visits by his family and lawyer in the past four days. He has been on hunger strike for 62 days in protest at his unfair imprisonment.

Amnesty International considers Al-Khawaja and 13 other prominent opposition activists held with him to be prisoners of conscience, held solely for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, and who have not advocated violence.

Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja’s wife told Amnesty International that he had been barred from receiving visits for the past four days.

They had last spoken on Friday evening, when he phoned her from the Bahrain Defence Force Hospital, saying he had asked to be transferred back to Jaw Prison after having difficulty breathing. He claimed that the nurses and guards at the hospital were not treating him well.

The UK must ensure full accountability for its role in rendition, torture and unlawful detention, Amnesty International said as a Libyan man subjected to rendition in 2004 allegedly with MI6 involvement launched a civil claim for damages against UK ex-Foreign Secretary Jack Straw for torture and misfeasance in public office.

"The allegations and concrete evidence of UK involvement in renditions to Libya have long been mounting,” said John Dalhuisen, Europe and Central Asia Programme Director.

“This latest announcement of legal action by a rendition victim could be an important step towards accountability through the civil courts, and is an ongoing reminder of the failure by UK authorities to establish a human rights compliant inquiry into these and wider allegations of UK involvement in torture and other human rights violations, in Libya and elsewhere."

“Today's legal action is a stark reminder of the importance of ensuring that cases such as these, where the UK is alleged to have been involved in serious human rights violations, should not be draped in a cloak of secrecy but subject to an open, transparent and fair process."

Following his rendition from Thailand, Abdel Hakim Belhaj was detained in the notorious Abu Salim Prison in Tripoli until his release in March 2010.  His current position is Head of the Tripoli Military Council.  Delegates from Amnesty International met with Abdel Hakim Belhaj in September 2011, and also visited Abu Salim prison in May 2009 when Abdel Hakim Belhaj was held there.

via Amnesty International

This article is a response to another article titled "After Gaddafi, Libyans still prefer one-man rule", published in various newspapers and online on around 16th of February, and the source is claimed to be "London Agencies, PTI".

You can find one instance of the aforementioned article here.

First, the title is misleading. In case the writer is referring to autocracy by one-man rule, one must ask, is he trying to say that Libyans still prefer dictatorship?
After all that they went through; the revolution, the war, after people risked and lost their lives to oust Qaddafi; Libyans would still like to have another one?

The writer contradicts himself with the explanation of the title itself: "35 per cent would still like a strong leader or (leaders) for the country in five years' time."
But we should not fail to realize, that the term 'one-man rule' is not necessarily used in the context of dictatorship only – albeit, in that title it was intended to refer to that sense, noting the comparison made with Qaddafi.

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have put up a video debunking Mayan Apocalypse, according to which some set of people believe the world would end on December 21. In this video, Don Yeomans explains most frequently cited doomsday scenarios. He also attempted to allay fears regarding Nibiru, an imaginary planet which some people believe is coming from the outer space towards the earth and would collide on December 21. "This enormous planet is supposed to be coming toward Earth, but if it were, we would have seen it long ago. And if it were invisible somehow, we would have seen the (gravitational) effects of this planet on neighboring planets. Thousands of astronomers who scan the sky on a daily basis have not seen this," he said. He added that there is zero possibility of a NASA cover-up. "Can you imagine thousands of astronomers who observe the skies on a daily basis keeping the same secret from the public for several years?"

As for solar flares, Yeomans explained that these do exist — in fact, two massive solar flares erupted just days ago, sending bursts of solar radiation into space — but they are part of the sun's normal 11-year cycle. Radiation from solar flares can damage orbiting satellites, but Earth's magnetosphere shields its inhabitants from the blasts, and the flares are not a health concern.

According to a recent report, President Barack Obama approved an aviation bill, which along with several other things, will allow the "unmanned aircraft systems", more commonly drones, into the sky. Such drones are likely to hover around in the stratosphere layer of the sky. Stratosphere lies roughly about 50,000 to 150,000 feet above sea level. While only the lower part of the Stratosphere is currently being utilized by commercial airliners, a little above for military, scientific and weather applications, the major part of Stratosphere remains empty, cold and rather closer to the outer space than to the earth.

The technology to implement drones is already into development. In September last year, Boeing announced its contract with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop what they call 'Solar Eagle', a drone capable of reaching more than 50,000 feet high and staying there continuously for 5 years.

Such drones are capable of collecting high-res images of city, streets, a speeding vehicle, individual pedestrians. At night, they will capture the precise moments when the lights in living rooms and bedrooms are turned on and off.

To get more insight into this topic, read here.