Libya denies Gaddafi son trial imminent: ICC
THE HAGUE: Libya has denied that slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam faces imminent trial on charges of crimes against humanity, The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) said Monday.
Seif has been charged with alleged crimes committed while trying to put down last year’s bloody revolt that toppled his father after over 40 years in power, but the ICC wants him to be tried in The Netherlands. In an interim report to the ICC on trial progress, Libya’s post-Gaddafi administration dismissed claims from both the Libyan prosecution and the defence that Seif would go on trial this month in former rebel bastion Zintan. Such claims are “baseless and false (and) rumours and lies,” the report quoted the head of the Libyan General National Congress Mohammed Youssef al-Magariaf as saying. The Libyan administration said it needed to form a government and name a public prosecutor before being able to say how it would proceed with the trial. The ICC and the new Libyan administration are locked in a dispute over where Seif should be tried. His ICC lawyer has said that Seif would not receive a fair trial in Libya, where he could face the death penalty. Libya said it wanted to submit a further report on progress towards putting Seif on trial, as well as former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi who was last week extradited from Mauritania to Libya, by September 28. afp
Seif has been charged with alleged crimes committed while trying to put down last year’s bloody revolt that toppled his father after over 40 years in power, but the ICC wants him to be tried in The Netherlands. In an interim report to the ICC on trial progress, Libya’s post-Gaddafi administration dismissed claims from both the Libyan prosecution and the defence that Seif would go on trial this month in former rebel bastion Zintan. Such claims are “baseless and false (and) rumours and lies,” the report quoted the head of the Libyan General National Congress Mohammed Youssef al-Magariaf as saying. The Libyan administration said it needed to form a government and name a public prosecutor before being able to say how it would proceed with the trial. The ICC and the new Libyan administration are locked in a dispute over where Seif should be tried. His ICC lawyer has said that Seif would not receive a fair trial in Libya, where he could face the death penalty. Libya said it wanted to submit a further report on progress towards putting Seif on trial, as well as former spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi who was last week extradited from Mauritania to Libya, by September 28. afp
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