Four additional arrest warrants are issued by the ICC in the Libya war crimes probe

 


Following his investigations into war crimes in Libya, the International Court of Justice prosecutor said during a briefing before the UN Security Council on Thursday that the court has issued four warrants for the arrest of specific people. 

During the briefing, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan stated that he had asked to have the warrants unsealed and that the ICC international judges will make a decision in due time. 

Khan said that over the previous several weeks, he had also asked for two more warrants.

Although Khan did not give the names of people for whom international arrest warrants were issued or their nationalities, it is assumed that they are important figures from the old administration of Muammar Gaddafi. NATO, a military coalition between the United States and Europe, overthrew Gaddafi from office following a public revolt against his decades-long dictatorship.

The rebellion and the ensuing civil war resulted in the deaths and injuries of thousands of innocent Libyan citizens, as well as the disappearance of many others. 

Following the Security Council's referral and Resolution 1970, which denounced the use of deadly force by Gaddafi and his top advisors against Libyan people, the ICC opened an international war crimes investigation in Libya in 2011. 

Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, the ousted leader's eldest son, and Abdullah Al-Senussi, a former colonel in the Libyan air force and chief of military intelligence, both received arrest warrants from the ICC on June 27, 2011.

Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi was detained by one of the armed factions in Libya for a number of years before being freed. 

At the Hague, where the ICC is housed in the Netherlands, neither man has yet been put on trial.

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