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Gaddafi’s son appears in Libyan Kangaroo court in Zintan (Libya), another in Tripoli wants him. And ICC calls for handover ignored …
Seif al-Islam, son of Libya’s late guide Muammar Gaddafi, stands trial for “illegally trying to communicate with the outside world” in Libya’s northwestern town of Zintan. Colonel Gaddafi’s son has appeared in Kangaroo court in Libya’s Zintan, while on the same day he was expected at a pre-trial session in another Kangaroo court in Tripoli – all amid ICC calls to hand the man over to the Hague.
WHITCH HUNT: SEIF WANTED BY THREE COURTS
Wanted by three courts, Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam appeared on this Thursday at a hearing in Zintan, west of the capital Tripoli, where he is being kept in custody, facing charges of “trying to escape from the prison and insulting the Libyan flag” (the puppet flag of Libyan monarchy used by TNC made in NATO Libya). The Zintan trial was eventually adjourned until December.
By the end of the day, reports emerged that “the militia-run prison in Zintan failed to handover Saif al-Islam to a court hearing in Tripoli”. “The court in Tripoli is seeking explanation from the prison authorities for this”, AP reports. Authorities which are on the controll of the powerful islamist militia of Zintan, one of the Libyan private armies.
The proceedings in the capital were going to be held behind closed doors and were rather « an investigation phase – not a court session, » according to puppet “Prosecutor General” Abdel-Qader Radwan. The Tripoli Kangaroo court charges Gaddafi’s son with “crimes” allegedly committed during Libya’s 2011 war. Saif al-Islam is to face trial together with more than 30 former regime officials, including Abdulla al-Senussi, the ex-chief of the country’s intelligence. Senussi appeared in court in Tripoli this Thursday for a so-called “pre-trial hearing” amid heavy security including armored cars and trucks equiped with anti-aircraft guns.
“NO FAIR TRIAL IN LIBYA”
Tripoli’s occupation regime right to try Gaddafi and Senussi has been questioned by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which in July ruled that “both should be extradited to the Hague because of fears they might not get a fair trial at home”. However, Libyan occupzation regime has repeatedly defied the ruling.
“Saif Gaddafi, he is a Libyan. All the crimes and charges against him are committed in Libya,” Aleddin Al-Mgariaf, a member of the Libyan General National Congress told RT. Officer of the CIA, leading puppet CIA “Libyan” terrorist group since 1980, Al-Mgariaf exposes here probably the US will not to see Seif in the ICC.
The country’s puppet authorities “insist the trial will be fair” (sic), but “human rights groups as well as many in the international community fear that settling old scores with the Gaddafi family is inevitable in a domestic trial” comments RT. Amnesty International said on Wednesday that even though “it understood (resic) the Libyan authorities’ desire to have a trial of its own, it still urged those in power in Tripoli to “immediately” hand the two major suspects over to The Hague”. “Libya’s justice system is in desperate need of an overhaul. There are serious concerns about the authorities’ ability to ensure fair trials compounded by the precarious security situation in the country,” says an official statement by Hassiba Hadj Sahrahoui, the group’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa.
Before they came to power, the Libyan pro-western rebels themselves were calling for the UN to order the ICC to investigate the alleged crimes by the Gaddafi family and put them on trial in The Hague. Once in power, they however backed down on their own initiative. The ICC might now file a complaint to the UN Security Council, if Libya continues to ignore the Court’s request. “Libya has a legal obligation to surrender Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi to the ICC pursuant to UNSC resolution 1970 (2011) which referred the situation in Libya to the ICC,” the Court’s Public Affairs Unit told RT.
SAIF AL-ISLAM’S LAWYER:
“THE LYBIAN TRIAL WILL MOST LIKELY END IN SEIF BEING EXECUTED”
Saif al-Islam’s lawyer in the ICC, John Jones believes “the Lybian trial will most likely end in his defendant being executed”. “If he is delivered to The Hague, to the ICC he may well stand a good chance of being acquitted and being freed because you can have a fair trial before an international court. You can’t have a fair trial in the circumstances when there’s an anti-Gaddafi witch hunt on in the country,” Jones told RT’s Worlds Apart host Oksana Boyko.
But the ICC is also a biased puppet Western Kangaroo court !
The ICC actually issued an arrest warrant for Saif al-Islam simultaneously with the one for his farther, while the latter was still alive back in 2011. The Court cited “evidence of crimes against humanity, committed against political opponents”. The war in Libya ended with the brutal ‘official’ death of Muammar Gaddafi at the hands of rebels in October 2011. A year later, Human Rights Watch called for “an investigation and prosecution of those responsible for the execution”. However, no investigation or trial into that killing has been carried out.
Sarkozy French secret services were involved in that file.
The ICC then started informal talks with Saif Al-Islam in October 2011, urging him to surrender himself to The Hague amid fears he would share the fate of his father. However, Saif was detained by the puppet Libyan occupation authorities while trying to leave the country, in November 2011. Shortly afterwards the government announced “he would go on trial for war crimes, in Tripoli”, rejecting the ICC’s calls for his handover, saying it had no jurisdiction.
In June 2012, four delegates from the ICC were detained in Libya for a month after attempting to get documents to Saif Al-Islam. They were accused of « conspiring against the state ». In May this year, Libya sought the ICC’s approval for its domestic trial of Gaddaffi’s son, but had its request rejected.
Luc MICHEL & Karel HUYBRECHTS
# GOING FURTHER ON SAIF-AL ISLAM TRIAL …
* RT Video on:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1414356765449152
* Understand the trial of Seil al-Islam and the confrontation Zintan-Tripoli-ICC:
ICC VERSUS NTC: JUDICIAL FARCE AND BLACKMAIL BETWEEN ASSISTANTS OF NATO IN THE MIDST OF THE LIBYAN CHAOS!
* Comprendre le procès de Saif al-Islam et la confrontation Zintan-Tripoli-CPI :
Luc MICHEL, CPI VERSUS CNT : FARCE JUDICIAIRE ET CHANTAGE ENTRE AUXILLIAIRES DE L’OTAN AU MILIEU DU CHAOS LIBYEN !
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