Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
son of Libya's late dictator Muammar Qadaffy
... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV...
, appeared in court Thursday charged with illegally trying to communicate with the outside world last June, an Agence La Belle France Presse journalist reported.
The man once assumed to be his father's heir appeared in good health, wearing blue clothes, at the hearing in the western town of Zintan.
Seated behind a grille and with two masked coppers at his sides, the defendant was relaxed and smiling but appeared to have lost a tooth.
Two lawyers, one named by the court and the other, Mabrouka Jumaa, who was chosen by his aunt, represented Seif as he faced the charge of "undermining state security" for meeting four envoys from the
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
last June.
The charges were leveled against Seif after the ICC team met him in Zintan and were themselves detained for nearly a month, triggering a diplomatic row with The Hague-based court. They were finally allowed to return home in July.
The judges decided to adjourn Thursday's trial until September 19 at the request of the defense team, who wanted access to the whole file on the case.
When journalists seated near the grille asked if he was well, Seif replied "yes", and gave a thumbs up.
Mohamed Allagui, head of the national council of liberties and human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
, said at a presser after the hearing that Seif was being "held in good conditions in line with international standards."