Saif Gaddafi appears in Libyan court

by admin
May 1, 2013

The son of Libya’s former dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, has appeared in a Libyan court earlier on Thursday, charged with plotting escape from detention in Libya.

Libyan authorities accuse Gaddafi of "undermining state security" after he met with envoys from the International Criminal Court in June 2012. Libya alleged that the ICC officials had attempted to pass coded messages to Gaddafi, keeping them in custody for 4 weeks, sparking a diplomatic row. Eventually all the ICC members were released.

However in January ICC lawyers criticised the current charges levelled against Gaddafi, stating that he was

"essentially being tried for attempting to communicate with the ICC via his Counsel in relation to the fact that his rights had been violated".

The current trial is separate from Gaddafi’s chrages of war crimes and crimes against humanity, alleged against him by both the ICC and Libyan authorities.

 

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