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| Zintanis rubbish ICC prosecutor Bensouda’s Saif Al-Islam claims |
| 2017-05-12 |
| [Libya Herald] The Zintan Military Council has rejected claims by the International Criminal Court (ICC) that it is now holding Saif al-Islam Qadaffy and that he recently survived an liquidation attempt. They described the allegations by ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda as "completely false". The comments from the military council came after Bensouda told the UN Security Council she had received unconfirmed reports that someone had tried to kill Qadaffy’s son. She also said that her office had received reliable information that Saif had been handed over to the town’s military council by al-Ajmal al-Atiri, commander of Zintan’s Abubakr al-Siddiq battalion who first seized him as he tried to flee across the desert in 2011. There have been rumours, denied angrily in Zintan, that Saif had in fact been released. It was also said that he had simply been moved to a different place of detention. Apart from a one-minute TV interview in 2013 Saif has only been seen in a Zintan courtroom when he was charged with trying to escape and in 2014 by video link to 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... ’s Hadba prison at the start of his trial along with 37 other top regime figures. In July 2015, he was one of eight of those defendants found guilty and sentenced to death by the court. The UN has condemned the trial as unsatisfactory while Bensouda and the ICC have continued to demand that Saif should be handed over to the court in the Hague in answer to a warrant issued for him in 2011. At the time, warrants were also issued for his father and Qadaffy’s security supremo Abdullah Senussi ...former Libyan supremo Muammar Qadaffy's right hand man. He looks like you always expected Luca Brasi to look.... , who was also sentenced to death by the Tripoli court. Both Saif and Senussi were accused by the ICC of war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
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