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 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.

Libya on Wednesday extradited to Britain the brother of a suicide bomber who attacked an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in May 2017 and killed 22 people, officials said.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it will request the United Nations and the international community to investigate the criminal bombing committed by Hafter’s forces, against the shelter in Tajoura suburb of Tripoli.

Four Libyan families residing in the United States have filed a lawsuit against Khalifa Haftar, as he is an American citizen, for war crimes, crimes against humanity and violations of human rights in Libya.

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.