First Independent Mena Newspaper
Son of former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi Thursday indicated that Italy, by deploying warships into Libyan territorial waters, is looking to re-colonize Libya by, repeating the colonization and fascist strategy of the past. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi reportedly said Italy wants to re-colonize Libya as it used to consider Tripoli beaches as Rome’s colony. According to […]
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda has reacted to the release of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in Libya by stressing that the arrest warrant issued in 2011 by the ICC “remains valid and Libya is obliged to immediately arrest and surrender” him “regardless of any purported amnesty law in Libya.” Saif has […]
Former French President and 2017 presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has dismissed claims by French and Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine who underlined that the French politician received 50 million Euros from the former Libyan ruler for his 2007 presidential campaign. Takieddine, in a video-taped interview published by French investigative website Mediapart, repeated that he gave three […]
The trial with Gaddafi’s officials, which has been eagerly expected by Libyans for three years, opens in Tripoli today (April 14). The trial includes also two sons of Muammar Gaddafi and about three dozens of former officials, all of whom are going to court over a long list of alleged war crimes committed during the […]