Salwa Bugaighis (Libyan human-rights lawyer; 2011 revolution leader; ex-NTC member) — interview quotes (Tripoli, late 2011, per openDemocracy): on women being sidelined after the revolution despite being "very effective," and her insight that "getting freedom doesn't mean reaching democracy." Assassinated in Benghazi, 25 Jun 2014, hours after voting.

Iman and I were very effective in the beginning but the men didn't believe that women could play a role at this time. They didn't think we had the strength, background or ability.

Getting freedom doesn't mean reaching democracy.

[Source is English (openDemocracy — Lindsey Hilsum's tribute, quoting Bugaighis's own words from an interview in Tripoli in late 2011; she spoke English); tier-2, confirmed verbatim against the fetched page (apostrophe glyphs normalized). published_date left NULL: the quotes date to late 2011 but the article was published in 2014 after her assassination and no precise statement date is given — not fabricated.] Declared positions of Salwa Bugaighis (1963–2014) — a leading Libyan human-rights lawyer, one of the most prominent figures of the February 2011 Benghazi protests that sparked the uprising against Gaddafi, and a member of the National Transitional Council (from which she later resigned). Unveiled and outspoken, she championed WOMEN'S political participation, LIBERAL DEMOCRACY, the rule of law and civil society against the rise of militia rule and Islamist hardliners. She named the central tragedy of Libya's transition — "Getting freedom doesn't mean reaching democracy" — and protested women's post-revolution exclusion: that despite being "very effective in the beginning," men "didn't believe that women could play a role," doubting their "strength, background or ability." She defended African migrants wrongly jailed as "mercenaries," backed dialogue and democratic processes (as deputy head of the national-dialogue preparatory committee), and kept challenging Islamist militias despite death threats. On 25 June 2014 she was assassinated in her Benghazi home, hours after voting in the parliamentary election; her husband was abducted in the same attack and remains missing. This is the LIBYAN LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC, WOMEN'S-RIGHTS, CIVIL-SOCIETY pole — the secular-civic current crushed by militia rule and jihadist violence in post-Gaddafi Libya (a counterpart, in a different arena, to Razan Zaitouneh in Syria). [Axes: democracy (liberal democracy; elections; the freedom-vs-democracy gap; national dialogue), women / gender (women's political participation; against post-revolution regression), religion-state (secular-civil vs Islamist-militia rule), regime-stance (anti-Gaddafi; then against militias and extremists).]