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. 

The International Criminal Court will deploy a team of investigators to Libya at the request of the internationally recognised government, as rogue general Khalifa Haftar presses an offensive to seize the capital, killing hundreds of civilians.

The head of the Presidential Council (PC) of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez Al-Sarraj, made a phone call, on Wednesday, with the Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda.

Earlier, the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord slammed Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army amid its advance into the Libyan capital, calling a recent attack on a city airport a “war crime” and a violation of “all national laws and international agreements.”

Relatives and supporters of Libya‘s Gaddafi-era intelligence chief, jailed for his alleged role in a bloody crackdown during the country’s 2011 uprising, protested in Tripoli on Saturday to demand his release.

The three men from Al-Zawiya city who were detained in Saudi Arabia when returning from Umrah in 2017 and then sent to the eastern authorities under Khalifa Haftar have been released after social mediation among times from both regions. 

The Libyan High Court has acquitted the seven Filipino seafarers who were arrested two years ago for an alleged attempt to smuggle six million liters of oil.

Hamas is denouncing a Libyan military court’s heavy sentences levied on four Palestinians found guilty of smuggling arms from Libya to Hamas in Gaza, setting up a secret foreign organization inside Libya, possession of arms and conspiracy against state security. This is the first judicial security case involving Hamas in Libya.

Libya’s Attorney General’s Office yesterday issued an arrest warrant for former Libya Investment Authority (LIA) chairman Abdulmagid Breish.

Libya’s Attorney General’s Office (AG) has issued 48 arrest warrants for owners of petrol stations across western Libya in connection with fuel smuggling.