Show Trials in Benghazi

Will the UN Insist on Fair Trials for Ex-Regime Loyalists in Libya?

by FRANKLIN LAMB

CounterPunch Exclusive

Benghazi, Libya

An affable gentleman, Mahmoud ushered this observer into the Benghazi Peoples Court (Mahkamat al-Sha'b) and showed me the freshly painted courtroom where on December 19, 2006, the current NTC leader and long term CIA favorite, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, twice upheld death sentences by firing squad against a Palestinian doctor, Ashraf al-Hujuj, and five Bulgarian nurses: Kristiyana Valtcheva, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo, Valya Chervenyashka, and Snezhana Dimitrova. The death sentences were requested by the Libyan prosecutor in his opening statement four months earlier, in the final appeal in the fake HIV show trial case # 607/2003 held at the criminal court in Benghazi.

The appellate judge in the case was none other than the current head of the NATO-installed Libyan National Transition Council (NTC) Mustafa Abdul Jalil, whose formal legal education consisted of sitting in on some Sharia law classes. Following his appellate decision in the case, and for other services rendered to the former regime, Jalil was rewarded with the post of Minister of Justice. He served loyally in that position until American associates encouraged the intensely ambitious Minister to resign on February 24, 2011, the day he joined the Benghazi based uprising, as leader.

In the Benghazi nurses case, Judge Jalil knew the defendants were innocent and had been regularly and severely tortured during years of incarceration and forced into making false confessions which they later recanted. He also knew that the families of the false government witnesses against the Benghazi Six had been threatened with death if their relative failed to testify that it was the defendants who injected 426 Libyan children with HIV at the al-Fateh hospital in Benghazi. Jalil was also fully aware that, as the Libyan and International medical community knew, unsanitary conditions at the hospital caused the spreading of the HIV virus which originated in Benghazi from African guest workers, well before the arrival of the Palestinian and Bulgarian humanitarian medical staff.

During his judicial review, Jalil ignored the most elementary rules of criminal trial procedure and did not appear to grasp the fact that without procedural rights no accused person possesses substantive rights.

From day one of the Benghazi Six proceedings, which spanned more than five years, it was a political exercise. The same  appears certain to be the case from the moment of the the opening of any trial conducted in Libya of  high profile ex-regime loyalists including Saif al Isam, Abdullah al-Senussi, Abu Zeid Dorda, former Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, former vice foreign minister Khaled Kiam, and others. If their trial is held in Libya, it is not at all certain that these accused will still be alive when the courtroom proceedings begin. This is because of the current lawlessness and political jockeying among NTC power centers and a widespread thirst across Libya today for revenge which trump international notions favoring just trials.

Jalil who recently announced that men in Libya will be allowed four wives because the New Libya is going to strictly follow Sharia law and four wives is what the Koran allows, wants the trials held in Libya.  He will try to convince the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo who is currently visiting Libya on behalf of the ICC that Libya should be the venue for Gadhafi regime trials and not The Hague.  Perhaps Jalil will tell Ocampo not to worry about fair trials in Libya because one area in particular in which Libyan laws have been inconsistent with Sharia is in the penal law.  Punishments under the Gadhafi regime were lighter than those mandated by traditional Islamic Hudud deterrent punishments, which Jalil is reported to favor but current Justice Ministry officials say current punishments, not Hudud will be applied.

Ocampo's challenge will be to explain the legal steps to officials in Tripoli, and try to convince them that The Hague is the better option for the coming trials. Ultimately, it is up to the ICC judges backed by the UN whether to hand over the cases against Saif al Islam and Abdullah al Senussi to the NTC.

Jalil will have the White House and NATO backing him on this issue.  Indeed, yesterday, 11/21/11, UN Ambassador Susan Rice beat Ocampo to the punch so to speak and showed up here in Libya to flamboyantly announce that the US will not pressure Libya to send Seif al Islam to the ICC at The Hague, an international criminal court whose jurisdiction the Obama Administration has refused to accept but which 119 countries have.

What the White House and NATO want is for former key Gadhafi loyalists like Seif al Islam to be silenced (reminding one of Saddam, Osama and Muammar) before they can reveal criminal dealings by NATO country leaders.  Chances are the jailed defendants will be killed unless the UN Security Council, which allowed the destruction of Libya via UNSC Resolution 1973, intervenes to uphold UN humanitarian principles.

Returning to the subject of my courtroom usher, who currently works in Benghazi as a NTC liaison officer with some of NATO's still active special units, he showed me the large ornate Italian style courtroom window which, like the courtroom, was also freshly painted. Wiping an index finger on the window ledge to show me its dust free condition, he explained:  As you can see with our newly painted courtroom we are now ready to bring these dogs to justice and we dont want any foreign interference in our country. We can take care of our own problems.  Speechless, I kept my thoughts to myself.  But they included that had my guide's new attitude about foreign interference and rivals in Libya settling their differences among themselves prevailed nine months ago, Libya would not have experienced the scores of thousands killed, wounded or whose lives were to varying degrees shattered, the latter affecting Libya's total population.

The above events, the show trial and equating a painted courtroom with readiness to administer justice, make plain to this observer that Libya in not yet ready to conduct fair criminal trials, not for the 16,000 current detainees,  (approximately 3000 still in prison from the previous regime, and close to 13,000 jailed by  Libya'’s claimed liberators). Libya currently lacks the capacity and perhaps agreement about what a fair trial would even be. It appears that currently a fair trial will not be conducted for high profile former regime loyalists.

Part of the reason is that today in Libya, the prevailing political, and legal dicta comes not from Gadhafis little Green book, volume I of which was published in 1976, or the engraved words outside UN HQ at Turtle Bay, New York, from Isaiah 2:4:  They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.  Rather todays clarion in Libya trumpets a quotation from Mao Tse-Tungs Little Red Book published in 1964, and it’s as true today as ever it was: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Despite sanctimonious NATO calls for the nearly four dozen militia, with more forming every month, to turn in their weapons, most of which NATO indirectly supplied, Libyas armed gangs are rearming, increasing their rank and file numbers and expanding the scope and the variety of their security parameters, all designed for maximizing their political power in the continuing turbulent period which will likely witness serial new and weak governments rising and collapsing here.

Key militias groups like the Zintanis, who captured Seif, or the Misratans, who killed Muammar and the most organized groups, which are Islamist, have organizational networks that are supporting their demands for major posts in the new government. Todays expected announcement by interim Prime Minister Abdul Rahim al-Keib, of a new interim government, is considered a mere starting point by these stronger militias in the process of maneuvering themselves into essentially full control.

This absence of control over the militias is only too evident in the treatment of less than high profile captured former regime officials and towns. Reports of score settling are heard everywhere. Ignoring the claimed authority of the NTC, militias continue to ransack towns formally loyal to Gadhafi as they mete out bloody reprisals even on rival militia opposed to the former regime. Instead of handing over weapons from captured government arsenals to the authorities, militias are taking them back to their hometowns. So far the interim government has been unable to exert any significant authority over a country awash with weapons and armed men.

This observer was approached last week in the lobby of a five-star Tripoli hotel by an Israeli business man who was jokingly complaining, 'Why don't these people speak Hebrew? Maybe I should open a school.' Like many of his countrymen and hundreds from NATO countries, Israelis are having no trouble getting visas here. It is not the same for black Africans and Arabs who are being held in herds at the borders with Egypt or Tunisia, or in Cairo, Alexandria, or Tunis, until groups of hundreds can be assembled and processed by well-paid construction and domestic worker employment agents who will likely continue Lebanese and Saudi Arabian style 'keep their passports and pay them pittance' slave labor practices. The droves arriving in Libya to do business, some of whom this observer has spoken with, will pretty much accept any kind of business if the bottom line is attractive. 'God willing we can make this country into another Dubai', one fellow opined as he asked if I knew any real estate agents who could help him buy up Mediterranean beach frontage cheap for a tourist resort.

On the lighter side, but to this observer's chagrin, even my Chadian princess friends who work with the traditional Saharan medicine specialist Dr. Fatma, and who more or less cured my leg in late August, and whose staff still administers my necessary outpatient physical therapies, are getting into the weapons business.

Today the picture of Libya is that of a country split into deadly rival factions. Cambridge Universitys Tarak Barkawi, accurately describes Libya as a country 'shot through with rivalries, jealousies and blood debts.' The NTC is itself is a disparate collection of defected regime elements, Islamists, secular expatriates and Berbers, many deeply suspicious of NTC leader Jalil who has never adequately explained his role in the July assassination; of his rival, former Interior Minister General Younis after the latter joined the rebels.

An international legal team is working on a brief for the UN Security Council, the International Criminal Court and the Libya National Transitional Council, laying out arguments to be used on behalf of former Gadhafi regime loyalists in an effort to convince these bodies that the facts and law of this case warrant moving their trials from Libya to The Hague.

The brief is expected to be made available publicly on December 15, 2011. Meanwhile the UN Security Council must support the ICC and assure that Libyan show trials for former regime loyalist that have been indicted are avoided by conducting their trials in The Hague.

FRANKLIN LAMB is reachable c/o fplamb@gmail.com

"Omran Eturki, leader of Zintan council, says Saif must face trial in Zintan's own courthouse. We can try him, it will not take too long, we don't need any new laws, he said, referring to questions over Libya's current legal limbo. "They are Zintanis who captured him so they will have to have him here.

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, a Sociologist and Research Associate for Research on Globalization (on the ground in Libya for two months during the conflict) writes 'the waragainst Libya is built on fraud. The United Nations Security Council passed two resolutions against Libya on the basis of unproven claims, specifically that Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was killing his own people in Benghazi and Libya. The claim in its exact form was that Qaddafi had ordered Libyan forces to kill 6,000 people in Benghazi as well as in other parts of the country.' These claims were widely disseminated, but always vaguely explained. It was on the basis of this claim that Libya was referred to the U.N. Security Council at U.N. Headquarters in New York City and kicked out of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.

False claims about African mercenary armies in Libya and about jet attacks on civilians were also used in a broad media campaign against Libya. These two claims have been sidelined and have become more and more murky. The massacre claims, however, were used in a legal, diplomatic, and military framework to justify NATO's war on Libya.

Speculation is neither evidence nor grounds for starting a war with a bombing campaign that has lasted about half a year and taken many innocent civilian lives, including children and the elderly. What is important to note here is that the U.N. Security Council decided to sanction the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on the basis of this letter and the claims of the LLHR. Not once did the U.N. Security Council and the member states pushing for war once bother to even investigate the allegations. In one session in New York City, the Indian Ambassador to the U.N. actually pointed this out when his country abstained from voting. Thus, a so-called "humanitarian war" was launched without any evidence.
The full article can be found here: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1110/S00026/libya-using-human-rights-organizations-to-launch-wars.htm


This appeal campaign is © Copyright 2011 by Citizens for Human Rights, Justice and Peace. Republication is strictly forbidden. You are however permitted, encouraged and welcome to post the link to the original letter of appeal and petition. On behalf of Libya's political prisoners, we thank you for your support and cooperation.

WE DEMAND FREEDOM and FULL AMNESTY FOR SAIF AL ISLAM QADHAFI, ABDULLAH AL SENUSSI AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS. We will not allow a witch hunt of former Libyan officials by the New Libyan Authorities.

The arrest of Religious leaders, Professors and tv personalities, proves these arrests are politically motivated to elimate political apponents and Qadhafi loyalists. The violence in Libya started with the Libyan Transitional Government (NTC) who took up arms to overthrow the legitimate government of Libya. The video above, taken at the start of the Libyan protests proves this was not an innocent uprising but an armed aggression. The continued violence in Libya between the different military factions vying for power proves this movement has little to do with freedom or democracy.
We demand all travel bans and sanctions are removed against all members of the Qadhafi family, Qadhafi Associates and Previous Regime Loyalists.
We demand Freedom of speach for the remaining members of the Qadhafi Family. We will not allow the NATO Alliance to hide their crimes by silencing the remaining family members.
We demand the ICC to Investigate the murder of Muammar and Mutassim Qadhafi and bring all involved to justice.
We demand a public inquiry into the evidence given by ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo in justifying the ICC arrest warrants for Muammar Qadhafi, Saif Al Islam Qadhafi and Abdullah Al Senussi. These arrests warrants were politically motivated.
We appeal to The United Nations, The European Union, The African Union, The International Criminal Court, the World Governments and International Human Rights Organizations, to pressure the Libyan Transitional Government (NTC) to ensure that the rights of Saif Al Islam Qadhafi, Abdullah Al Senussi and all political prisoners are protected in full compliance with International norms and to intervene immediately to protect all political prisoners.
We demand a stern warning to New Libya that if any harm comes to political prisoners in Libyan custody, those responsible will be held accountable.
We demand that all political prisoners access to speak to their familys and are granted the right to choose their own legal counsel.
Should any trial for any poltical prisoner occurs, we demand the trial follows the principle of International law and is not subject to the death penalty. We will not allow the Libyan Transitional Government (NTC) to assassinate who they perceive to be political apponents.
We demand a stop for the attempt to extradict the Qadhafi Family, Baghdadi al-Mahmudi Mahmoud, and any Qadhafi Regime Members by The Libyan Transitional Gevernment (NTC) back to Libya. They will face persecution based on their political affiliation.
Any trial against the Qadhafi family and Qadhafi Regime members will not be a fair trial before a Libyan Tribunal because it is not impartial. It would neither respect nor uphold the fundamental principles of Libyan Law or International Law as has been proven with the treatment of Political Prisoners currently detained in Libya.
The Libyan Transitional Government (NTC) has failed to follow Libyan and International laws by holding political prisoners without charge for more than forty-eight hours. Both Saif Al Islam Qadhafi and Abdullah Al Senussi have been detained for 2 months without charges.
The Libyan Transitional Government (NTC) have denied Saif Al Islam Qadhafi and Abdullah Al Senussi access to legal counsel which is a violation of both Libyan Law and International Law. The New Libyan Authorities have refused to have Saif Al Islam Qadhafi and Abdullah Al Senussi the right to speak to their families.
The United Nations and The International Criminal Court must apply all and every legal means available to ensure that The Libyan Transitional Government (NTC) upholds both its National and International legal obligations in accordance with. 

THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS
CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Attached: The following article describes the situation on the ground in Libya and the danger these men are facing.

ICC Prosecutor's Career Move Switches Horses and Legal Theories in Libya

The Troubling Case of Saif Gadhafi

by FRANKLIN LAMB

Zintan Libya

Despite the claims of the National Transitional Council of Libya (NTC) that Saif al Islam Gadhafi, the apprehended subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant that ordered his transport to The Hague, is in a secure hidden location near Zintan, Libya, a town approximately 85 miles southwest of Tripoli, this is not the case.

Neither are the assurances by Steven Anderson, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who on 11/23/11 announced that Saif al-Islams injuries had been taken care of, nor his profuse assurances that Saif is in good health. In point of fact, following the ICRC assurances, the Ukrainian-born Doctor Andrei Murakhovsky who lives in Zintan reported that Saif's wound is covered with gangrenous tissue and necrotic tissue. He added that, 'This wound is not in good condition and requires amputation. His index finger has been ripped off at the level of the middle phalange (finger bone), the bones are all shattered. It's the same thing with the thumb of that hand,' Dr. Murakhovsky told the Reuters news service.

The morning of 11/24/11, Libyan NTC Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib still insisted that Saif al-Islam is receiving the best possible treatment, but for now he is not in the hands of the provisional central government and we don't know where he is.

Regarding Saif al Islam's secure and hidden location, most people in the village of Zintan know where he is being held, as does this observer who visited a motley group of B-western movie types who are currently guarding and 'protecting' Saif.

Although armed with a Power of Attorney from one of Saif's family members to visit him, the group refused my request to visit Saif with the excuse that they had to consult their commander who was not expected to return for a few days since he was now the new NTC Libyan Defense Minister.

On the question of Saif's health, there is increasing concern also because his guards claim they cannot take him to Zintan's only hospital because someone would likely kill him in order to collect on the substantial rumored Qatar/NATO offered cash reward for whoever assassinates him thus presumably helping the new Libya and its allies avoid a messy trial.

Meanwhile, after what he claims in a change of heart, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, now professes that Libya, not The Hague, is the best place after all for Saif al Islam and his trial. Since its establishment by the United Nations in 2002, the ICC has had just one Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo. To the reported expressed relief of many international defense lawyers, several ICC staff and ICC judges, plus legal commentators familiar with his prosecutorial work, the ICC will have his successor chosen next month in New York. This coming weekend in New York, the legal defense organization, Avocats Sans Frontiers (ASF, ie Lawyers Without Borders) will meet in order to try to agree on a successor to propose to the 18 ICC Judges who will decide.

Prosecutor Ocampo's visit this week to Libya caused some raised eyebrows among the groups noted above when he suddenly announced that the ICC would not invoke its UN Security Council-granted power and proceed with Case # ICC 01/11. This case was opened at the ICC on March 3, 2011, having been assigned to the ICC by the UN Security Council following the preceding month's uprising in Benghazi, Libya.

Speculation among some in The Hague, in Libya and from ASF lawyers is that knowing that he would not be re-elected for another term as ICC Prosecutor, due to among other reasons he has not won one case during his 9 year term, has repeatedly incurred the wrath of ICC judges for bringing cases which they ruled lacked sufficient evidence and his penchant for self-aggrandizing publicity and making inaccurate claims about cases and defendants that border on judicial misconduct, Ocampo decided to switch horses.

One egregious example of his making false representations is the current ICC case involving Saif al-Islam Gadhafi in which Ocampo made several inaccurate headline-grabbing statements over the past several weeks claiming to be negotiating 'indirectly'� with Saif al Islam to give himself up to the ICC. Saif has emphatically denied Ocampo's grandstanding claims and presumably, were Ocampo to attempt to personally prosecute his case Saif's legal team would immediately file a motion to replace Ocampo for cause, as provided by ICC rules.

Given these problems, Ocampo, according to someone who accompanied him during his visit this week to Libya, decided to accept a lucrative offer from the NTC to advise the oil-rich country on setting up a legal system to try Saif al Islam and others.

The assurances by Moreno-Ocampo, NATO officials and American UN Ambassador Susan Rice that Libya is currently fully capable of currently handling trials of former regime loyalists are nonsense. Rice exhibited ignorance and surprise here last weekend when she claimed not to know that Libya had the death penalty and would apply the death penalty in the ICC case if given the chance. The Libyan public's apparent preference is for the death penalty by hanging in the two Libya ICC cases. This was the case with Rwanda, which is one reason the Ruanda Tribunal did not allow the government of Rwanda to conduct certain trials even though that government assured the UN it would not actually carry out a death penalty sentence. Libya has offered no such assurances to the ICC against the use of the death penalty nor has it submitted a legal challenge to ICC jurisdiction over the Saif al Islam or Abdullah Sanussi cases, as the Rome Statute requires.

Despite switching jobs, Ocampo has not lost interest in prosecuting the Saif al Islam case which he views as his best chance of finally winning at least an ICC related case, but not at The Hague where there is the possibility that Saif would not be convicted, given Court rules of procedure and ICC legal staff resources that would actually assist an accused in presenting his defense before the court.  Ocampo is said to be betting on gaining a victory in Saif's high profile case by working with the NATO-created NTC government in Libya and running the prosecution as a behind the scenes 'consultant'and helping Libya's NTC keep the UN and ICC at bay while allowing the NTC to try both Saif’s case and that of Abdullah Sanussi if and when the latter is proven to have been captured. Ocampo is said to relish the job of becoming the father of Libya's new legal system. Ocampo is now explaining that it was never his role to tell Libyan officials how to hold a fair trial and the standard of the ICC is that it has to be a judicial process that is not organized to shield the suspect and I respect that it's important for the cases to be tried in Libya. He then added, "There are so many different traditions; it is difficult to say what is a fair trial.

No sooner had the surprising news and Ocampo's sudden vagueness about what constitutes a fair trial begun to ricochet around the Internet than this observer received an email from an international criminal lawyer whose office is two blocks from the Carl Moultrie Courthouse in Washington, DC. The American lawyer was appalled: "Paying Ocampo as a consultant for the new Libyan government on criminal trial procedures is a ridiculous thought/idea. He has no idea of fair trial rights and has not achieved a conviction in his nearly 9 years at the ICC."

Nor were the ICC judges thrilled at the perceived betrayal.  The ICC quickly fired off a reminder to Ocampo, to the new Libyan government and the media that it is the ICC judges, and not the ICC Prosecutor, who will decide whether a case will be held in The Hague or in the country where the alleged crimes occurred and only they will decide if Libya has the ability to conduct a fair trial. The ICC is signaling that the Ocampo-generated international headlines to the contrary notwithstanding, the issue of trial venue in Libya has not settled in ICC case # 01/11.

Prosecutor Ocampo knows well that once the ICC decides to open an investigation of a case, national courts may not investigate that case and are relieved from their obligation to do so. In addition, since the ICC has issued an arrest warrant against Libyan defendants, all states including Libya are obliged to cooperate fully with the Court. Following the public dressing down from The Hague, Ocampo has now retreated a bit and told CNN on 11/23/11 that: "The only condition is the new Libyan government has to present their position to the International Criminal Court judges and the judges will decide if the case can be prosecuted in Libya. Libya will present evidence to ICC judges that the country can hold the trial, and the judges will decide if they are satisfied," Ocampo explained.

The ICC, if it takes up the question as expected, should rule in the developing Saif al Islam case, precisely as the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found in ruling against that country's request for trial jurisdiction, although like Libya today, Rwanda claimed to have a "modern functioning court system." The reason is that an initial review of Libya's criminal judicial system and discussion with Libyan criminal defense lawyers as well as with international criminal defense lawyers with years of experience in international tribunals practice, shows that it is very clear that persons accused of serious crimes in Libya currently do not have even the most minimal judicial rights that are required by international norms. Today Libyan defendants do not benefit from adequate legal representation, financial support for indigent accused, travel and investigation support for defense teams, or security for defense teams. Libya's central and local governments place impediments curtailing defense teams in the discharge of their functions.

An admittedly cursory inquiry in Libya among lawyers here also reveals nonexistent or inadequate accommodation and transport arrangements for witness, as well as a lack of arrangements for protection of witnesses before, during and after testifying in court. In addition, the NTC is engaging in a pattern of threatening potential witnesses preparing to testify against NATO in another case. Similarly the NTC is failing to provide safe and secure travel for Libyan witnesses living abroad, including in Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Niger, and Egypt. Interviews with Libyan lawyers and officials as well as visits to detention facilities in Libya reveal that conditions are not in compliance with international standards and that there is widespread torture of prisoners in Libya and threats against the families of prisoners.

This brief documentary describes the crisis from its violent inception. It also has video evidence proving that Muammar Gaddafi immediately met with the people who began the unsurrection, seeking a peaceful resolution. It highlights the escalation of violence. The bottom video, filmed by a Libyan, documents the early days of the crisis as the Libyan people saw it - In There Own Words.
http://libyadiary.wordpress.com/libyan-crisis-causes-events-facts/

 Libyas Ex-Rebels detain 7,000 Political Prisoners without due Procees, Torture, Cites UN Chief
http://news.yahoo.com/libyas-ex-rebels-hold-7-000-detainees-un-055236798.html

Plight/Torture of Dr. Abuzaid Dorda, former Libyan representative to UN. His son reveals the efforts that have taken place to date on behalf of his father and the problems the family are facing as well as exposing the lies of the ICRC..
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/urgent-action-libyas-former-ambassador-to-the-u-n-in-immanent-danger/

Humanitarian War in Libya? There is no Evidence!
Critical Read proves beyond doubt that the entire war was based on fabricated evidence (critical links included
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/the-humanitarian-war-in-libya/

Moreno-Ocampo, ICC Prosecutor, has overstepped his bounds.
http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/exeres/48F6B130-EC14-4A51-BC79-1CCF8633E270.htm
The ICC's Charges (Legal Document)
http://libya360.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/prosecutor-application-pursuant-to-article-58-as-to-muammar-mohammed-abu.pdf

Libya's Response: Covers accusations against all parties
http://www.upstreamonline.com/multimedia/archive/00039/COUNSEL_TO_MUAMMAR_A_39972a.pdf
The Criminal Role of The UNSC in unleasing an illegal War Against Libya. Clearly outlines each irregularity that reveals the UN's role in initiating the war against Libya, the lies, the violations of the UN mandate and violations of international law.
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/the-criminal-role-of-the-unsc-in-unleashing-an-illegal-war-against-libya/

Nato's Crimes In Libya
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/the-ugly-truth/

UNSC Resolution 1973 is not what it appears and Violates International Law
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/unsc-resolution-1973-is-not-what-it-appears-and-violates-international-law/

Peaceful Protests or Armed Aggression?  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiI4YAtJWiA&feature=channel_video_title

Gaddafi Regime using restraint in dealing with armed rebels.  Libyan fighter pilot fires warning shot away from large pocket of rebel fighters. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWvVtsEYYqA&feature=relmfu

Nato War Crimes - Graphic
http://www.federaljack.com/?page_id=37933

NTC Rebel atrocities - Graphic
http://obamaslibya.com/

The Sorman Massacre
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/the-sorman-massacre/

Massacre of El-Hamedi Family
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/massacre-of-el-hamedi-family/

CRITICAL READ - Series of Human rights reports documenting crimes.  Compact but loaded with information.
http://libyadiary.wordpress.com/human-rights-reports/

The Brutal Murder of Muammar & Mutassim Gaddafi
http://libya360.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/the-brutal-murder-of-muammar-and-mutassim-gaddafi/

New Libyan Leaders Supported by Money, Arms - 90% of Libyans voiceless
http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5E7MO4CQ20111124?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true

Video showing Religious Leader from Sirte (Muammar Qadhafi's home town) being abused during interogation by the New Libyan Government Militias. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT93Ilhx1Kw

Sincerely,
The Petition Signers

This appeal campaign is © Copyright 2011 by Citizens for Human Rights, Justice and Peace. Republication is strictly forbidden. You are however permitted, encouraged and welcome to post the link to the original letter of appeal and petition. On behalf of Libya's political prisoners, we thank you for your support and cooperation.