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Africa North
International Criminal Court: Saif Gaddafi, Mahmoud Al-Werfalli must surrender
2018-11-05
[Libya Observer] The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda requested the UN Security Council to help urge Libyan authorities apprehend and surrender Saif al-Islam Qadaffy - son of Moamar Qadaffy- and the commander of Saiqa Force of Haftar-led forces Mahmoud al-Werfalli, as well as former head of Qadaffy’s Interior Security Agency al-Tuhamy Khalid.

Bensouda told the Security Council that ending impunity of runaways is very vital for the security situation in Libya.

"Surrendering runaways to the ICC is very challenging. There can be no justice made to the victims until the criminals are surrendered to the court." She remarked.

"In June Mr. Qadaffy argued that, because of ongoing domestic proceedings conducted against him in Libya, he cannot be tried at the ICC: this argument is rejected by the Court and the case, said Ms Bensouda, remains admissible: because Mr Qadaffy’s challenge is currently sub judice," she added.

Bensouda also said that Saif Qadaffy is just one of several individuals in Libya whose alleged criminal acts could fall within the jurisdiction of the ICC.

"On the 5th of June this year, Mr Qadaffy filed an admissibility challenge submitting that his case is inadmissible before the ICC. Significantly, in his challenge, Mr Qadaffy states that on or around the 12th of April 2016, he was released from custody of the Abu-Bakr al-Siddiq Battalion in Zintan, pursuant to an amnesty law. Mr Qadaffy also argues that as a consequence of the domestic proceedings conducted against him in Libya he cannot be tried at the ICC." Bensouda’s statement reads.

She added that for the reasons set out in my written response to this admissibility challenge, filed on the 28th of September 2018, she argued that Saif Qadaffy's case remains admissible before the Court.

Posted by:Fred

#4  Trailing wife: In the year prior to the Arab Spring Seif served as his father's point-man in his relation with the Salafists. He was then considered a natural leader and the obvious successor to his father. Captured, he has been kept alive. Apparently there are those who consider him still a viable candidate to unite a fissiparous Libya.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889   2018-11-05 16:52  

#3  I realize he has a PhD, but as that was purchased for him, it isn’t terribly meaningful

Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Dumbasaboxofrocks) has a BA from Yale and a JD from Virginia. Q.E.D.
Posted by: Frank G   2018-11-05 14:52  

#2  Seif may yet return to power.

That would certainly prove interesting for all concerned. Is he intelligently vicious enough to hold power once it is given to him, Chereting Pelosi1889? I realize he has a PhD, but as that was purchased for him, it isn’t terribly meaningful (not that it was necessarily meaningful anyway, but that is a different discussion).
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-11-05 13:24  

#1  The warrant of arrest for Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi was issued on 27 June 2011. He is not in the Court's custody. Case also involved charges Muammar Gaddafi and Abdullah Al-Senussi in warrant issued on 27 June 2011. Case against Abdullah Al-Senussi was declared inadmissible on 11 October 2013. Case against Muammar Gaddafi was terminated on 22 November 2011, following his death.
Prior to Arab Spring, Seif was seen as a bridge between his father and Libya's Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist elements. Seif may yet return to power.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889   2018-11-05 07:05  

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