‘Muammar Gaddafi’s son will be hanged in Libya’
11 Oct 2012 6:40 AM IST
Muammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam without a doubt would get a death sentence if tried in Libya, his lawyer told the Hague-based International Criminal Court on Wednesday.
‘Although the Libyan government has danced around the issue, let’s be very clear: if convicted [in Libya] Mr Gaddafi will be hanged,’ Melinda Taylor, a court-appointed lawyer, told judges amid a dispute on where Seif should face justice.
While the ICC wants Seif, the only son of the slain Libyan leader in custody, to be tried in The Hague, Libya’s post-revolutionary authorities insist he should stand trial in his home country.
Libya’s lawyers told a three-judge bench on Tuesday the country had enough evidence to charge Seif with crimes against humanity, committed when Gaddafi and his loyalists tried to put down Libya’s bloody revolution last year. But the lawyers admitted although Tripoli was committed to a fair trial for Gaddafi, it was a ‘complicated process and that Libya needed more time.’
‘Although the Libyan government has danced around the issue, let’s be very clear: if convicted [in Libya] Mr Gaddafi will be hanged,’ Melinda Taylor, a court-appointed lawyer, told judges amid a dispute on where Seif should face justice.
While the ICC wants Seif, the only son of the slain Libyan leader in custody, to be tried in The Hague, Libya’s post-revolutionary authorities insist he should stand trial in his home country.
Libya’s lawyers told a three-judge bench on Tuesday the country had enough evidence to charge Seif with crimes against humanity, committed when Gaddafi and his loyalists tried to put down Libya’s bloody revolution last year. But the lawyers admitted although Tripoli was committed to a fair trial for Gaddafi, it was a ‘complicated process and that Libya needed more time.’
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