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| HRW Urges Niger to Explain Decision to Extradite Gadhafi | |
| 2014-03-07 | |
| [An Nahar] Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... urged Niger to explain its decision to extradite a son of late Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffy ... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV... on Thursday.
The New York-based group also pointed to the responsibilities of the Libyan authorities. "Libya has the responsibility to see that Saadi Qadaffy gets his full due process rights. They should protect him from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; allow him visits from legal counsel, his family and medical personnel; and bring him promptly before a judge," it said. Qadaffy, who is accused of murder and repression during the 2011 uprising that ended his father's rule, is in the custody of the judiciary's police, the Libyan government said. Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which 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... had repeatedly called for Saadi's extradition from Niger, which granted him asylum in 2011 on "humanitarian" grounds saying it had insufficient guarantees he would have a fair trial. Tripoli charged he was sowing sedition from exile. Niger said Thursday it handed over Qadaffy because it no longer felt he would face the risk of extrajudicial killing, and because it wanted to improve ties with Tripoli. Marou Amadou, the justice minister and government front man, said the political situation had "changed" in Libya. He added that Niger had tried to find another country to take Qadaffy, but "we didn't find any candidate." But a group of NGOs in Niger condemned the extradition, warning that "the life of Saadi Qadaffy is under threat in Libya, which is a non-state with no security." | |
| Posted by:Fred |