Libya’s Supreme Judiciary Council announced yesterday the completion of the elections of its members. It said it was proud to announce that despite the country’s political split the Council was able to democratically and smoothly elect its members in a transparent manner, safeguarding its independence and integrity.

The Libyan General Staff called on all judicial authorities and the public prosecutor as well as the military prosecutor to start investigating the torture marks on the bodies returned by Khalifa Haftar’s forces to the Red Crescent, asking them to bring the perpetrators to justice in local and international courts.

The Tobruk-based, and internationally-recognized parliament of Libya, the House of Representatives (HoR) has referred the breakaway Tripoli HoR to the Public Prosecutor for accessing its bank account in Tripoli.

The joint operations room of Misrata has arrested three people linked to Al-Qaeda – including an Algerian national – and seized their weapons.

The controversial release of the last prime minister of the Muammar Gaddafi regime, Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi, has been rendered as temporary by the spokesman for the Libyan Justice Ministry of the Presidential Council’s government Mohammed Hammuda.

Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, Libya’s last prime minister under ousted dictator Moamer Gaddafi, has been released from jail for health reasons four years after being sentenced to death, Tripoli’s justice ministry said Saturday.

The Supreme Judicial Council announced on Tuesday its new administration for the next three-year term, after last week’s elections, at the level of the courts of appeal and departments.

A security guard was wounded in an exchange of fire between Security forces and inmates at Majir Prison in Zliten city on Tuesday, authorities said.

The Interior Minister of the Libyan Presidential Council’s government Fathi Bashagha has asked his counterpart in Cyprus not to issue passports for four sons of Khalifa Haftar, after news said they were applying for them currently.

The Tripoli-based Military Prosecutor has issued arrest warrants of Khalifa Haftar and others under his command for war crimes and recruiting underaged boys in his attack on Tripoli.