THE GUARDIAN: Muammar Gaddafi's son, Mutassim, was taught at London's Soas while the charity of another son donated £1.5m to the LSEPotentially embarrassing new details of links between the Gaddafi regime and British universities have emerged, including revelations that one of the Libyan dictator's sons was tutored in the UK.
Mutassim Gaddafi, who has been described as a "war criminal" by Libyan anti-government protesters, was given private lessons at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the summer of 2006. Four years later Soas, which is part of the University of London, announced a lucrative deal with a Libyan university.
It has also emerged that another British university formed a partnership with a Libyan government ministry to reform the country's prisons. But the university did not gain access to Libya's two most notorious jails.
The deal with the centre for prison studies at King's College London was facilitated by the Gaddafi foundation, the charity run by another of the dictator's sons, Saif al-Islam. The foundation also made a controversial £1.5m donation to the London School of Economics.
The prisons project received funding from both governments. According to a conference paper on the programme published by two staff at the centre, the Gaddafi foundation "created the essential links that made the project a reality". >>> Rajeev Syal and Jeevan Vasagar | Monday, March 07, 2011
