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Africa North
Australian ICC lawyer 'arrested' in Libya
2012-06-10
Libya has placed in durance vile
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
a female Australian lawyer from the International Criminal Court
... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
for trying to pass "dangerous" documents to Seif al-Islam, tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
son of slain leader Muammar Qadaffy
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...
, the ICC's Libyan representative have said.

"During a visit (to Seif on Friday), the lawyer tried to deliver documents to the accused, documents that have nothing to do with his case and that represent a danger to the security of Libya," Ahmed al-Jehani said.

The lawyer, named as Melinda Taylor, was part of a four-member ICC delegation that received permission from Libya's chief prosecutor to visit Seif in Zintan, southwest of Tripoli,
...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
where he is jugged.

Jehani said she is "under house arrest in Zintan, not in prison," and is being questioned by the authorities.

Seif, 39, has been in jug in Zintan since his arrest on November 19 in the wake of the uprising that toppled his father's rule after more than 40 years in power.

The ICC wants both Seif and his late father's spymaster, Abdullah Senussi, tried for crimes against humanity committed while crush last year's bloody revolt.

Jehani did not say what the documents were, except that they had been sent by Mohammed Ismail, Seif's former right-hand man, who has been on the run since the revolt.
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