Seif al-Islam Gaddafi and the Fight behind the Scene over His Fate

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Seif al-Islam Gaddafi and the Fight behind the Scene over His Fate

SOURCE: libyanfreepress

Seif al-Islam Gaddafi and the Fight behind the Scene over His Fate

by Alexander MEZYAEV

The legal proceedings against Seif al-Islam, the son of Muammar Gaddafi, have developed into an unusual situation, that has had no precedents in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) history.  The matter is that the Court itself is exerting efforts to destroy the case so that the accused would never have to face it.

It has started from a strange leak of information that took place a few days ago from the International Criminal Court. And it happened through a formal source: the ICC’s website.  First the two documents1 were posted for public view, but disappeared in a few hours without any explanation. They were related to the report of the ICC’s delegation that had visited Seif al-Islam Gaddafi in  Zintan. The questions change places while reading the text: it is becoming clear why they have been taken away from public view. But the question pops up, why have they been made public at all?   There is ground to believe that some kind of clash  between two opposing forces took place inside the Court. One of the forces had never made itself known before…

So, what did the ICC delegation find out while meeting Seif Gaddafi?  The following is what the report prepared by the Registry says. The importance of the information and the way it has got to the Court justifies extensive citation. The ICC delegation visited Seif Gaddafi in early March.   At first the Libya’s government indicated it couldn’t take the delegation to Zintan because the city was under the control of two factions, only one them being loyal to the National Transitional Council. But at the last moment when the delegation was about to return to the Hague, the authorities said the visit would take place.  The report goes further:

“All shutters were closed.  The door was heavy and in metal. The members of the Registry and the OPCD  waited for approximately 40 minutes. Seif al-Islam appeared smiling and wiling to talk to the Court…It was difficult to assess whether he had lost a lot of weight  as he was wearing large clothes. He appeared slimmer than on the picture annexed to his arrest warrant. He was missing part of his thumb and index at the right hand. He had no visible bruise on his face”.

“The Registry representative asked to continue the meeting alone as another person from the Libyan authorities was present in the room. This person said that the law prevented the Registry to meet the suspect alone and that he had to stay”.

“The Registry representative explained that the  delegation was there pursuant to the Court order to give him information and to transmit information regarding his status to the Chamber. She also explained that the Chamber had appointed a lawyer to represent him before the Court.  Mr. Gaddafi was very interested in knowing whether the lawyer would help him in Libya. The Registry indicated that the lawyer could help him in Libya but only in relation with the ICC proceedings.”…MORE HERE

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