... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV...
's son Seif al-Islam after he insisted in a controversial hearing by video link that "God is my counsel."
Just 22 of 37 former Qadaffy regime officials being tried for a raft of alleged abuses during the 2011 uprising that ended his 42-year rule were in court for Sunday's hearing in the capital.
Seif spoke by video conference from Zintan, a hill town southwest of 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...
, where he is in the custody of former rebel militia.
Eight other defendants, including former internal security chief Mansur Daw, appeared by video link from Libya's third largest city Misrata.
The court ruled at a previous hearing earlier this month that it was too dangerous to move the defendants to the capital for the trial and ordered video links to be established instead.
The ruling drew condemnation from human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
groups, which had already expressed serious concern about the prospects for the defendants receiving a fair trial.
Among those present in the dock on Sunday were former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi and Qadaffy's last premier, al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi.
All the defendants are charged with murder, kidnapping, complicity in incitement to rape, plunder, sabotage, embezzlement of public funds and acts harmful to national unity.
The court set the next hearing for May 11.
Seif is wanted by the
International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
-backed uprising.
In May last year, the ICC rejected Tripoli's request to try Seif in Libya because of doubts over a fair trial. Tripoli has appealed the decision.