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Libya bars all Kadhafi-era officials from public office
AFP – Libya’s General National Congress on Sunday, under pressure from armed militias, voted through a controversial law to exclude former regime officials from government posts. Gunmen who had surrounded the foreign and justice ministries to press for officials from the regime of the late dictator Moamer Kadhafi to be…
Kadhafi’s former prime minister in critical condition after being tortured in prison
Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, the last premier of deposed Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, is in critical condition after being tortured in a Libyan prison, his Tunisian lawyer said on Wednesday. Mahmudi “is in critical condition as a result of the torture he has suffered,” said Mabrouk Kourchid, adding that “he could die”.…
ICC lawyers slam Libya over Kadhafi son’s ‘Kafka-esque’ trial
Lawyers defending Moamer Kadhafi’s son Seif al-Islam at the International Criminal Court on Monday accused Libyan authorities of conducting a “Kafka-esque show trial” after he appeared in a court in his homeland for the first time last week. The latest broadside in the legal tug-of-war between The Hague-based ICC and…
Libya marks 1st ‘liberation’ anniversary amid tension
TRIPOLI — Libya on Tuesday celebrates the first anniversary of its “liberation” from the regime of Moamer Kadhafi, even as fighting flared in a former bastion of the slain dictator. On October 23, 2011, just three days after Kadhafi was captured and killed in his hometown Sirte, the transitional authorities…
Prostitution kingpin linked to Kadhafi son sentenced to 8 years
A French court Tuesday sentenced a Lebanese businessman in absentia to eight years in prison over a high-end prostitution ring operating at the Cannes Film Festival that had ties to a slain son of Moamer Kadhafi. The judge also slapped a 50,000 euro ($64,000) fine on Elie Nahas, a Lebanese…
Cannes Film Festival high-end prostitution ring trial begins in France
Two men and a woman appeared in a French court Monday in a case over a Cannes Film Festival high-end prostitution ring that had ties to a son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi. Seven men and a woman went on trial in the southern port city of Marseille, though…
Protesters storm Libyan private TV station
Demonstrators stormed the offices of a private Libyan television station in Benghazi Sunday, protesting coverage of the clashes in Bani Walid, one of the last bastions of Moamer Kadhafi’s regime. The demonstrators broke into the offices of Libya Al-Hurra station, wrecking the site and setting fire to an office, an…
Trial set for Cannes prostitution ring linked to Kadhafi’s dead son Mutassim
A hearing opens in a French court Monday in a case involving a high-end prostitution ring that was active during the Cannes Film Festival and possibly had ties to a son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi. Seven men and a woman will go on trial in the southern French…
Libya ‘not fully liberated’ year after Kadhafi death
The new Libyan authorities said on Saturday the country has not yet been “fully” liberated, exactly a year since the killing of Moamer Kadhafi and against the backdrop of clashes in one of his last bastions. “The campaign to liberate the country has not been fully completed,” Mohammed Megaryef, the…
Libya holds first free national election after 40 years of Gaddafi
Voters flocked to cast their ballots Saturday in Libya’s first free national election in decades after the ouster of dictator Moamer Kadhafi, despite protests disrupting some polling in the restive east. Gunmen killed one person and wounded another near a polling station in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, an official told AFP, a day…
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