[Libya Herald] The United Nations...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) as well as
... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge....
have condemned both the conduct of the trial of Saif Al-Islam, Abdullah Senussi and 35 other Qadaffy regime figures and today's death sentences as unacceptable.
In separate scathing and detailed attacks on the trial issued within hours of the verdicts being announced, they criticised the proceedings as having been flawed and neither fair nor transparent.
"The trial did not meet international standards of fair trial in a number of ways," said Claudio Cordone, UNSMIL's Director of the Human Rights, Transitional Justice and Rule of Law.
All three bodies listed a catalogue of what they regarded as faults and injustices.
They said that defence lawyers had been threatened, had on many occasions been denied access to their clients or had not been able to see them in private, and not had full access to case files; that the accused on several occasions had been denied the right to legal counsel or had been interrogated without a lawyer present, had been allowed only two witnesses each (and that many of these had been too frightened to appear), had not been allowed to challenge the evidence brought against them, and were not always present at their trial; that those making allegations against the accused had not been called to court or cross-examined despite defence lawyers requests.