"Will the UN insist on Fair Trials for Ex-Regime Loyalists in Libya?" asked Franklin Lamb from Benghazi"Libya Can Try Seif Al-Islam, Our Judges Must Be Involved" answered Luis Moreno-Ocampo from Tripoly, who will try Nato for its crimes in Libya.
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The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor said that Libya could try Muammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam, but the court’s judges should be involved.
Speaking at a news conference in Tripoli, Luis Moreno-Ocampo said it was very important for Libya that Seif al-Islam would tried inside Libya.
"Seif is captured so we are here to ensure co-operation," Moreno-Ocampo said.
"If they [Libyans] prosecute the case, we will discuss with them how to inform the judges, and they can do it, but our judges have to be involved."
The ICC earlier this year issued a warrant for Seif al-Islam's arrest on charges of crimes against humanity.
Seif was arrested on Saturday in southern Libya and is being held by fighters in the mountain town of Zintan, southwest of the Libyan capital.
The 'New & Improved Libya': "Torture, Lynchings & children prisoners ..."
"... The document, seen by The Independent, states that while political prisoners being held by the Gaddafi regime have been released, their places have been taken by up to 7,000 new “enemies of the state”, "disappeared" in a dysfunctional system, with no recourse to the law.
The report will come as uncomfortable reading for the Western governments, including Britain, which backed the campaign to oust Gaddafi. A UN resolution was secured in March in order to protect civilians from abuses by the regime,... ...
... Ban Ki-moon also presents a grim scenario of the growing power of the armed militias that control of the streets of many towns, including those of the capital, Tripoli, and the settling of internecine feuds through gun battles resulting in deaths and injuries.
Meanwhile the lawlessness has resulted in the vast majority of the police force not being able to return to work. In the few places where they have been back on duty under experienced officers, such as Tripoli, their role has been restricted largely to directing traffic.
Libya is the only Arab uprising to have attracted direct Western military support, despite the closer links forged with the West in recent years by the Gaddafi regime....
But the continuing human rights abuses, says the Secretary-General’s report, are the most pressing concern. The report says that “while political prisoners held by the Gaddafi regime have been released, an estimated 7,000 detainees are currently held in prisons and makeshift detention centres, most of which are under the control of revolutionary brigades, with no access to due process in the absence of a functioning police and judiciary.”
Of particular worry was the fate of women being held for alleged links with the regime, often due to family connections, sometimes with their children locked up alongside them.
“There have also been reports of women held in detention in the absence of female guards and under male supervision, and of children detained alongside adults,” says the report.
A number of black Africans were lynched following the revolution following claims, often false, that they were hired guns for the Gaddafi regime....
The report says that ”sub-Saharan Africans, in some cases accused or suspected of being mercenaries, constitute a large number of the detainees. Some detainees have reportedly been subjected to torture and ill treatment. Cases have been reported of individuals being targeted because of the colour of their skin.”
The document continues: “Tawergas are reported to have been targeted in revenge killings, or taken by armed men from their homes, checkpoints and hospitals, and some allegedly later abused or executed in detention. Members of the community have fled to various cities across Libya.”
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