Even before he was captured and his finger infamously chopped off, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had a way of making headlines, charming his supporters, and enraging his enemies. Saif was the dapper multi-billion dollar poster boy for détente between Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya and the West. Saif’s allies spearheaded the economic reforms …
Read More »Blog Archives
Conflicting information on releasing Saif Al-Islam
News on releasing the son of Muammar al-Gaddafi Saif Al-Islam, is still circulating in media sources. Some sources confirm that he was freed from capital punishment earlier this year, and now it seems to be that Saif is roaming the streets of Libya, even though he faces charges for crimes …
Read More »Appeals court tells CDA’s Tarhouni to stand aside
The president of the Constitutional Drafting Assembly, Ali Tarhouni, has lost the latest round in proceedings against him for having dual nationality, in this case American in addition to Libyan citizenship.
Read More »HRW presses ICC to chase Libyan human rights criminals
At the heart of the two reports by Human Rights Watch reports on the treatment of prisoners in both government and Libya Dawn jails is an indictment of the International Criminal Court for failing to pursue a single case against anyone in post-Revolutionary Libya who is alleged to have abused …
Read More »Tripoli court adjourns trial of Gaddafi son
Saadi Gaddafi, a son of Libya’s slain dictator Moamer Gaddafi, appeared in court Sunday to face trial on charges of murder and repression during the 2011 revolution.
Read More »Gaddafi’s son, eight officials, sentenced to death in Tripoli on
Muammar Gaddafi’s most prominent son, and eight of his top aides, were sentenced to death by a Tripoli court on Tuesday, for committing war crimes during the 2011 uprising, in a trial widely denounced by the international community.
Read More »Libya: unfair trial of Saif Al-Islam Gadhafi and others a missed opportunity to establish truth, violates right to life
The ICJ today expressed its serious concerns about the trial, conviction and sentencing to death of Saif al Islam Gadhafi, Abdallah al Senussi, as well as seven officials of the Gadhafi regime by the Tripoli Criminal Court.
Read More »Final defence presented in trial of Gaddafi-era senior officials
Gripping the bars of the cage holding 28 defendants in a Tripoli Courtroom on Wednesday, former head of the Libyan external intelligence agency Abuzeid Dorda pulled himself to a standing position. Both his legs were broken in a fall whilst in custody in 2011 and he cannot stand unaided.
Read More »Court issues warrant for Libya’s Haftar
A court in the Libyan capital has issued an arrest warrant for former general Khalifa Haftar, hours after his forces hit Tripoli’s only functioning airport with air strikes.
Read More »Court issues warrant for Libya's Haftar
A court in the Libyan capital has issued an arrest warrant for former general Khalifa Haftar, hours after his forces hit Tripoli’s only functioning airport with air strikes.
Read More »