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A Libyan-British lawyer has launched a public campaign this week to reclaim 2,000-year-old Roman relics from the grounds of Windsor Castle in the UK. Mohammed ben Shaban, the first Libyan to be licensed as a lawyer to the UK supreme court, is lobbying the crown estate to “follow the spirit of international convention in returning these items of important cultural heritage”. The columns of Leptis Magna – a city built between modern-day Tripoli and Sirte – were stolen from the temple of Augustus in 1817 by British imperial officers Hanmer Warrington and William Henry Smyth. In the 17th century, …