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Russia proposes 6-month cross-border aid renewal for Syria

2022-07-08

[Rudaw] As the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote Thursday on humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... , Russia agreed to continue such deliveries but only for six months - not a year, as many U.N. Security Council members, Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... and more than 30 nongovernmental groups want. Russia proposed amendments to a draft resolution by Ireland and Norway reducing their year-long time frame for deliveries. Council diplomats said consultations were continuing late Wednesday to see if a compromise could be reached. The Security Council scheduled a vote for Thursday morning. If no compromise appeared, the draft resolution by Ireland and Norway to extend cross-border deliveries for 12 months would be voted on first. If it failed to get nine votes, or was vetoed by Russia, the Russian resolution with a six-month extension would then be put to a vote. In early July 2020, China and Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have maintained two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Idlib. Days later, the council authorized the delivery of aid through just one of those crossings, Bab al-Hawa. That one-year mandate was extended for a year on July 9, 2021, and expires this Sunday. The Russian proposal called for increased efforts to ensure "full, safe and unhindered" deliveries of humanitarian assistance across conflict lines within Syria, according to the Russian draft obtained Wednesday by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. It also would authorize the establishment of "a special working group" comprising concerned council members, major donors, interested regional parties and representatives of international humanitarian agencies "in order to regularly review and follow-up on the implementation of this resolution." Neither of those proposals were in the Ireland-Norway draft resolution. Northwest Idlib is the last rebel-held bastion in Syria and al Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... is the strongest holy warrior group in the region. The U.N. said last week that the first 10 years of the Syrian conflict, which started in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians -- the highest official estimate of civilian casualties. In a letter to Security Council ambassadors obtained Wednesday by the AP, former International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo warned that by approving cross-border deliveries to northwest Syria, council members "could find themselves materially supporting a U.N.-designated terrorist organization." He said northwest Syria "is controlled by Al-Nusra, a U.N. designated terrorist organization affiliated with al Qaeda and currently called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham." Any support to a "terrorist organization, including humanitarian assistance," is prohibited by previous U.N. Security Council resolutions, Ocampo said. To avoid a "flagrant violation" of its resolutions, he said the Security Council should have the operation monitoring cross-border deliveries confirm that the al Qaeda-linked groups "are not involved in implementing humanitarian aid" or remove Al-Nusra-Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from the "terrorist" list.

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Former ICC chief prosecutor pushes for Yazidi genocide case

2015-09-03

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The former chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) is pushing for a case to be opened into the "ongoing genocide" against Iraq's Yazidi community at the hands of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) turbans. Luis Moreno Ocampo said he was approached in the United States recently by Yazidi activists who are seeking justice for the systematic slaughter, rape and enslavement of thousands of members of the religious minority in northern Iraq. "It's a very clear case. It's an ongoing genocide because there are still people in captivity," Ocampo told Rooters in an interview in Erbil, capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, late on Wednesday. "It's up to us to provide information that allows the ICC to understand, yes, we have jurisdiction in this case in this way," said Ocampo, who launched many of the ICC's highest-profile cases, including against Saif al-Islam, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly happen to them... , and is now a professor at Harvard University. "It's difficult to predict who will be prosecuted because this is the beginning."

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Africa Subsaharan

ICC prosecutor seeks 30 years in Lubanga case

2012-06-14

[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, convicted of using child soldiers in his rebel army, should be sentenced to 30 years in jail, the International Criminal Court's ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... chief prosecutor said on Wednesday. "The prosecution requests the chamber to impose a sentence of 30 years in prison," Luis Moreno-Ocampo told judges before the court in The Hague, adding he was asking for a "severe sentence". Lubanga, 51, was convicted in March of war crimes for using child soldiers in a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the ICC's first verdict since it started work a decade ago. He was found guilty of abducting children as young as 11 and forcing them to fight and commit atrocities in 2002-3 in the DRC's northeastern gold-rich Ituri region. During the trial prosecutors told how maidens of tender years served as sex-slaves, while young boys were trained to fight. Lubanga risks 30 years in jail or, if judges decide the crimes are exceptionally grave, life in prison. In a submission in May, Moreno-Ocampo asked judges to take into account the scale and brutality of Lubanga's crimes, the vulnerability of his victims and the impact on them. "The prosecution will request a sentence in the name of each child recruited, in the name of the Ituri region," the outgoing prosecutor told the court on Wednesday.

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Africa Horn

Sudan asks AU to move summit over Bashir snub

2012-06-08

[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Sudan has urged the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... to move its July summit from Malawi to its Addis Ababa headquarters after the host nation's refusal to welcome President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. , the foreign ministry said Thursday. Sudan informed the pan-African bloc of its request on Wednesday after Malawi announced that Bashir "would not be welcome at this summit, upon a claimed adherence of Malawi to its obligations to the so-called 'International Criminal Court'," ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... the ministry said in a statement. Sudan's president is wanted by The Hague-based ICC on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the country's troubled Darfur region. Malawi's new president, Joyce Banda, said in May that she wanted Bashir to stay away from the summit in Lilongwe on July 9-16, to avoid straining ties with key donors for her impoverished country. Sudan's foreign ministry said Khartoum accorded "the upmost importance" to the July summit, which required the participation of the country's leadership, given that the strained relations between Sudan and the South were on the agenda. ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has sought to increase pressure on the international community to arrest Bashir, telling the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the failure to detain him and other Sudanese officials accused of war crimes and genocide was "a direct challenge to the council's authority." He said the council should consider calling on all 193 UN member states and regional organizations to carry out the arrest warrants. Under current rules only ICC members, of which Malawi is one, have a duty to arrest Bashir, who has visited several countries, including some court signatories, without any action being taken.

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Africa North

Libya builds case against Seif

2012-04-22

TRIPOLI: Libya says it is building its case against Muammar Qaddafi's detained son, gathering witnesses and documents, according to The Hague-based war crimes prosecutor, as it seeks to persuade the International Criminal Court to allow for a local trial. 'Persuade'? They have him jugged. It's the ICC that has to do the persuading if they want the trial at the Hague. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Seif Al-Islam last year after prosecutors accused him and others of involvement in the killing of protesters during the revolt that eventually toppled his father, who ruled with an iron fist for 42 years. It has called on Libya to hand Seif Al-Islam over but Tripoli has insisted he will be tried in his home country after his capture in the southern desert in November. ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo traveled to Libya this week as part of ICC investigations into crimes committed during Libya's war, meeting the head of the ruling National Transitional Council and chief prosecutor. "I understand he has more than 30 witnesses, he's got documents, he has interceptions, so I understand he has a strong case but I don't know the details," Moreno-Ocampo told a news conference yesterday, adding he had not seen the information as it remains confidential at this stage of the investigation."Libya has to present the argument to the judges." No they don't... Tripoli is to outline its case to the ICC on April 30 as to why it should put Seif-Al Islam on trial. Libya has the right to try him on its soil following his arrest there. The ICC will only act if a country is deemed unable or unwilling to investigate or prosecute, for instance when its legal system has collapsed. Moreno-Ocampo said it seemed unlikely any trial would transpire before Libya's first free elections in June. "There is no deadline for the judges. I suppose two, three months but in the meantime I don't see a trial in Libya before that because the process requires first an accusation." Several human rights groups have questioned whether the Libyan justice system can meet the standards of international law as the interim national government struggles to impose its authority on a myriad of armed groups. The Libyan government has yet to convince the former Zintan rebel fighters who captured Seif Al-Islam to turn him over to its custody. Moreno-Ocampo said he was told that Qaddafi's son had not been mistreated. "(Saif's location) is a matter for the national authorities. Respecting Saif's well-being is also matter for the national authorities," he said. Moreno-Ocampo added that it was critical for Libyans who fought against the injustices of the Qaddafi regime to now show they could "respect justice for a person like Saif." The ICC is also investigating rapes committed during Libya's conflict. Moreno-Ocampo, who traveled to Misrata -- scene of some of the bloodiest fighting last year, said his mission was considering how to tackle the taboo subject, looking at gathering evidence against top officials of the old regime, some of whom are outside Libya. While there have been allegations of rape used as a weapon during the fighting, it remains unclear how widespread violence against women was. Rape is a highly sensitive issue in the Muslim country and is rarely discussed in public. "Libya has to give recognition to these people, because if not, it will be double punishment -- they were raped and now they are marginalized," Moreno-Ocampo said.

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Africa Horn

Sudan Says ICC Warrant against Defense Minister Means 'Nothing'

2012-03-02

[An Nahar] An International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... warrant issued against Sudan's defense minister means "nothing" and Khartoum does not care about the decision, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. The reaction came after the Hague-based court said it has issued an arrest warrant for Defense Minister Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein, for alleged crimes against the civilian population in Sudan's western region of Darfur. "The government will not issue any statement reacting to the ICC decision because we believe it means nothing to us," since the country is not a party to the Rome Statue governing the court, foreign ministry front man Al-Obeid Meruh told Agence La Belle France Presse. "We don't care about any decision coming from the ICC." Hussein, 60, is the sixth person sought by the ICC or before the court for crimes committed in Darfur, where rebel groups drawn from Darfur's non-Arab tribes rose up against the Arab-dominated Khartoum government in 2003. Among those sought is Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. The court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said in December when he asked for the warrant against Hussein that it would cover crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur from August 2003 to March 2004. Hussein, who was interior minister from 2001 to 2005 and also Bashir's special representative for Darfur from 2003 to 2004, is wanted for allegedly coordinating attacks against civilians in villages in west Darfur.

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Africa Horn

Top Kenyans to face trial at ICC

2012-01-24

This will be quite the bone for Carla del Ponte... THE HAGUE: International Criminal Court judges on Monday ordered four prominent Kenyans, including two potential presidential candidates, to stand trial for allegedly orchestrating a deadly wave of violence after their country’s disputed 2007 presidential election. Among the four suspects sent for trial were Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and former Education Minister William Ruto, who both are planning to run for the presidency this year. Kenyatta, 50, is the son of Kenya’s founding president, Jomo Kenyatta, and the country’s richest citizen, with a personal fortune of half a billion dollars. Cheez, Bob in Zimbabwe does much better than that. Ruto is a former ally of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, but the two had a falling out — partly over Ruto’s insistence on making his own presidential bid this year. More than 1,000 people were killed in postelection violence in Kenya after police ejected observers from the center where votes were being tallied and the electoral body declared President Mwai Kibaki the winner. Ruto was ordered to stand trial with radio broadcaster Joshua Arap Sang for crimes against humanity allegedly targeting Kibaki supporters. Another suspect, former Minister of Industrialization Henry Kiprono Kosgey, was cleared of charges. In a separate case, Kenyatta will stand trial alongside Cabinet Secretary Francis Muthaura for alleged crimes against humanity directed at Odinga supporters. A third suspect in the case, former police commissioner Maj. Gen. Mohammed Hussein Ali, was cleared of the charges. No date has been set for the trials. The suspects ordered to stand trial will remain free in Kenya until the case starts, sometime in about 2024... but Trendafilova warned them they could face arrest if they attempt to whip up fresh violence. Prosecutors have said the decision to launch an ICC investigation in Kenya should help ease tensions, but there are fears a decision on prosecuting the suspects could have the opposite effect and spark renewed fighting. “It is our utmost desire that the decisions issued by this chamber today bring peace to the people of the Republic of Kenya and prevent any sort of hostilities,” Trendafilova said. It’s unclear whether the case could block Ruto and Kenyatta’s presidential ambitions, since government officials have issued conflicting statements on whether they will remain eligible to run. Trendafilova stressed that the decisions do not mean guilty verdicts against the suspects, only that there is sufficient evidence to send them to trial. Rights groups welcomed the ruling. According to two recent opinion polls, a majority of Kenyans support the ICC process. Most citizens have little faith in their own judiciary, widely perceived as corrupt and choking on a backlog of cases. The ICC prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, launched his investigation in 2010 only after Kenya’s parliament failed to agree to set up a national tribunal to prosecute perpetrators of postelection violence. Both Kenyatta and Ruto come from powerful ethnic groups. Kenyatta is Kikuyu, the ethnic group with the highest numbers and the one that has produced two of the country’s three presidents. Ruto is a Kalenjin, the ethnic group that produced Kenya’s longest-serving president, Daniel arap Moi, who recruited many of his fellow Kalenjin into the security services.

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Africa North

Gaddafi's daughter demands ICC probe into father's death

2011-12-16

[Emirates 24/7] The daughter of slain Libyan strongman Muammar Qadaffy ... who is now deader than a rock... has asked the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... if it will probe the killing of her father and her brother, her lawyer said Wednesday. Aisha Qadaffy's "The Claudia Schiffer of North Africa"... lawyer Nick Kaufman said he had written to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asking for more information on the October 20 killing of Muammar Qadaffy and his son Muatassim Qadaffy. "Aisha wants to know if he is investigating the murders and if not, why he is not," Kaufman told AFP. The former dictator and his son were killed after their capture by forces loyal to the National Transitional Council. In a letter to the prosecutor, Kaufman wrote that Muammar and Muatassim Qadaffy were captured alive at a time when they threatened no one. They were both killed soon after and their bodies put on display. "As you are aware, your analysis of the situation in Libya requires you to investigate the commission of alleged crimes by all parties to the conflict," Kaufman said. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Moamer Qadaffy on June 27 for crimes against humanity carried out as he tried to suppress the Libyan revolt. Another son, Seif al-Islam, and former information minister Abdallah Al-Senoussi are subject to similar warrants. Seif al-Islam Qadaffy was jugged November 19 and there are unconfirmed reports Al-Senoussi was also captured. ICC spokeswoman Florence Olara could not confirm if the prosecutor had received the letter. The ICC has jurisdiction in Libya matters under a UN Security Council resolution from February 26. Aisha, her brothers Mohamed and Hannibal, her mother Safiya and other family members were allowed to flee to Algeria for humanitarian reasons, according to Algiers.

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Africa Subsaharan

ICC says keeping close eye on DR Congo vote

2011-12-07

[Daily Nation (Kenya)] International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Tuesday warned the main rivals in DR Congo's tense election that he would not tolerate any violence. "We're warning you! First guy to eat a pygmy is in big trouble!" "We are closely watching the situation on the ground, and recourse to violence will not be accepted," he said in a statement. Tension between President Joseph Kabila's camp and opposition supporters has already flared on several occasions before and since the November 28 election. Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... has said at least 18 civilians have already died in election-related violence from November 26 to 28, most of them rubbed out by Kabila's presidential guard in Kinshasa. "We continue to receive multiple reports of violent attacks against civilians, of fighting between rival factions, as well as attacks by gangs and the national security forces," Moreno-Ocampo said. "I am also aware of reports of violence by gangs apparently associated with different political parties, politicians and party officials against demonstrators from opposing parties," he said. Kabila's main rival Etienne Tshisekedi has issued thinly veiled threats of violence should the current trend giving the incumbent the lead in early tallying not be reversed when full results are released. Thousands of soldiers were deployed in Kinshasa and other cities in Africa's second largest country amid fears that the conflict-prone country could descend into chaos no matter who is declared the winner.

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Africa Horn

ICC seeks arrest warrant for Sudanese defense minister

2011-12-02

The ICC's chief prosecutor has requested an arrest warrant for Sudan's defense minister on war crimes charges. Luis Moreno-Ocampo said that Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein helped to mastermind attacks against villages in Darfur between August 2003 and March 2004. Hussein was Sudan's interior minister at the time. A statement says the attacks followed a pattern in which the villages were surrounded, bombed by the Sudanese air force, then attacked by troops and the Janjaweed militia, who murdered and raped villagers. A panel of judges must now review the evidence and decide whether to issue a warrant for Hussein's arrest.

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Africa North

Seif now just a 'helpless criminal': Libya official

2011-11-30

Muammar Qadaffy's ... one of those little rainstorms from the Arab Spring... once-powerful son Seif al-Islam is now just a "helpless criminal" in the Libyan hilltown of Zintan, where he can stay until he goes on trial, officials and town residents say. "For Zintan he is just a helpless criminal. He is not a danger. We have no problem in keeping him here and we can hold him until his trial begins if it is better for Libya," said Ibrahim Turki, the National Transitional Council's health coordinator in Zintan. They usually say something like that just before a gang of heavily armed revanchists busts him out so he can lead the counterrevolution. "The Libyan authorities will decide his fate," he said. "And then they'll hang him!" Unless he can point them to the $2 billion bribe he was reported to have offered the guys who caught him. Then there might be room for negotiation. Krugerrands have a way of doing that... Residents of Zintan, a southern Libyan town now famous for its high-profile captive, told AFP that Seif was being moved regularly from one secret location to another to ensure his safety and protect him from the brutal end faced by his father. ... and to keep the well-organized gang of Qadaffy revanchists from spiriting him away. On October 20, Qadaffy was lynched by his captors in Libya's western city of Misrata. Leaked footage of the deposed leader's final moments showed his bloodied, limp body being hauled onto the back of a pick-up truck as dozens of frenzied gunnies had gun sex. Qadaffy's death triggered widespread global condemnation and forced Libya's new rulers to launch an investigation into the circumstances of his killing. The "widespread global condemnation" is more a sign of how ostentatiously fastidious we've become. Muammar was a bloody-handed dictator, literally. He was a sadist. He was a megalomaniac. Now he's a dead sadistic megalomaniac. It's no skin of my fore. I haven't lost a minute's sleep over his demise. Some Zintan residents said they initially believed Seif would also face a violent death, but are now confident he will likely live long enough to go on trial. After which he'll face a violent death. See how much more civilized that is? "We were initially worried that he may face the same fate as his father. But he is in safe custody and poses no danger to Zintan or to Libya," said Shaban al-Waer, 48, a self-employed resident of the town. "He can be held here even for a year without any problem," he said. Seif's location has remained a closely guarded secret, with residents saying there has been no sign of the captive since his initial arrest on November 19. NTC officials have only confirmed that Seif is still in Zintan. "He is in a secured location," Libya's Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abu Shagur told news hounds in Tripoli on Tuesday. Shagur said Qadaffy's son is being treated in accordance with international standards. "Of course he has been and continues to be treated in accordance with international standards and not in the way he used to treat our prisoners," he said. My point entirely. In the days after Seif's capture, media reports suggested that Zintan's military council was refusing to hand him over to NTC officials unless the commander of the unit that captured him was named Libya's defence minister. Last week, the commander, Osama Juili, was given the defence minister's post. Well, imagine that! Seif al-Islam's fate remains a challenge to the new Libyan leadership as it tries to balance demands for Dire Revenge™ against Qadaffy's most prominent son and heir apparent, and calls by the international community to give Seif a fair trial. The International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... , which wants to try him on charges of crimes against humanity, too has called on the Libyan leadership to ensure Seif is unharmed, and treated in accordance with international laws and norms. In a statement Friday, the ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the trial of Seif could be held in Libya under ICC auspices. This the sign of desperation for the ICC as it struggles to demonstrate its relevance -- it's that or face the loss of their funding, and no western organization will suffer that... Shagur said Seif will get a fair trial. "It (trial) will happen at the right time. He will be facing a fair and just trial," he said when asked when could the trial commence. Despite international fears that Seif's safety is at risk, Zintan residents expressed their desire to see justice take its course, and prove once and for all, the new Libya will be lawful, not vengeful. "He (Seif) deserves a fair trial and he will get one. I am sure," said Salam Ali Ahmed, a shopkeeper in Zintan whose grocery shop overlooks the town's main square, packed with pictures of citizens killed in the fight to overthrow the former regime. For Waer, Qadaffy's son will remain innocent until proven guilty. "Only a fair trial can prove his doings. We need to find out whether he ordered the killing of Libyans during the revolt against his father," he said. "We need to find out whether he used Libyan money to kill Libyans ... he may not be guilty" of these offences, he added.

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Africa North

ICC Trial for Seif al-Islam Could Be in Libya

2011-11-26

[An Nahar] The trial of deposed Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy's son Seif al-Islam could be held in Libya under the auspices of the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... , its chief prosecutor said Friday. "The prosecutor proposed as a third possibility that the ICC might, subject to judges' approval, conduct the trial against Seif al-Islam in Libya," Luis Moreno-Ocampo said in a document before the Hague-based court. He also proposed two other options, namely Libya asking the ICC to decide whether a Libyan court could prosecute Seif, or Libyan courts trying Seif for other crimes, for which he is wanted in Libya, with the ICC prosecuting him on a separate charge of crimes against humanity. The ICC's mandate says it can only prosecute those accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes if a state's national courts are unwilling or unable to investigate and prosecute them. Moreno-Ocampo's report to ICC judges follows a visit to Tripoli this week to meet Libyan authorities for talks on jurisdiction in the case. Moammar Qadaffy's one-time heir apparent, Seif, 39, was nabbed almost a week ago in Libya's southern Saharan region after three months on the run. He and Qadaffy's former spymaster, Abdullah al-Senussi, 62, are wanted on ICC arrest warrants issued on June 27 for crimes against humanity when trying to put down the north African country's bloody revolt, sparked in February.

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