The late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son, 40-year-old Seif al-Islam who is currently being held at a jail in Zintan, 180 kilometres Southwest of Tripoli, will be put on trial in Tripoli for ‘Crimes Against The Libyan People’ for his role in the defence of Gaddafi’s regime as it was toppled by Western backed rebels in 2011.
Written by Chris White
The trial of Gaddafi’s son who is to be tried alongside Gaddafi’s former Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi and Mansur Daw the former head of Gaddafi’s “People’s Guard” is due to begin in August. A representative of the Libyan Prosecutor’s Office Al-Seddik Al-Sur said that the case would not be divided, so that all three suspects would be tried at the same time in the same Libyan dock.
Speaking to reporters Al-Sur said: “These [former] officials met together to drum up a policy of repression and a common criminal plan, putting them on trial separately would perturbate the proceedings.”
The announcement comes on foot of a dispute between the new authorities of Libya and the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has issued an order for Seif al-Islam to be tried in The Hague for War Crimes & Crime Against Humanity.
Earlier this month the new Libyan Government appealed against the ICC’s decision to prosecute al-Islam, which last week resulted in the ICC suspending, but not reversing the International Court Order foral-Islam to be handed into The Hague.
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