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Libya's former prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi has begun a hunger strike to resist his possible extradition from Tunisia for fear of being executed in his home country, his lawyer said on Monday. The action, which began on Saturday, comes after Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said he did not want Tunisia to be a "refuge for those who threaten the
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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died almost three years after being freed from jail on compassionate grounds. "He died an hour ago," his brother Abdelhakim al-Megrahi told AFP, putting the time of death at shortly after 1 pm (1100 GMT). A Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands convicted
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A lawyer for Moamer Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam said Friday he doubted Libya was able or willing to try his client, as he asked the International Criminal Court to report the matter to the UN. Xavier-Jean Keita, the defence lawyer appointed by the ICC, said in papers before the Hague-based court that despite several requests to meet Seif, Libyan authorities
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Libya faces the daunting task of vetting thousands of candidates wishing to compete in June elections for a constituent assembly, with several bodies involved in the process. "If a person committed a criminal offence or had ties to the former regime he is excluded," Al-Taher Qraf, the deputy head of the electoral commission said on Thursday, the final deadline for
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Moamer Kadhafi's son is refusing to name a defense lawyer, a top Libyan diplomat said Wednesday amid growing questions over the conditions in which Seif al-Islam is being held. The International Criminal Court (ICC) must decide in coming months whether to agree to Libya's request to try Islam in a domestic court. The dictator's son is being held by a
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A candidate in the upcoming poll for a constituent assembly was murdered in Libya's southern desert on Sunday shortly after submitting his registration, a security official said. "Khaled Abu Saleh was murdered 30 kilometres (22 miles) from Ubari," in the south of Libya, Mohammed Saleh, deputy chairman of the High Security Commission, told AFP. "An armed gang traveling in five
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NATO's bombing campaign in Libya left 72 civilians dead last year, a leading human rights group said Monday, accusing the military alliance of failing to acknowledge the deaths. In a 76-page report, Human Rights Watch urged NATO to provide "prompt and suitable compensation" to families for the civilian deaths, injuries and loss of property. HRW's field investigation at the sites
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About 4,000 accused supporters of former dictator Moamer Kadhafi are still being held in Libyan militia detention centers, often in secret and many are tortured, a UN envoy said Thursday. Ian Martin, head of the UN mission to Libya, said good progress was being made toward the country's first democratic election, but militia prisons were one of a number of
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Cairo - An Egyptian police official says security forces have confiscated dozens of heavy weapons seized from smugglers near the Libyan border. The official says the weapons include 40 surface-to-surface missiles, 17 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, mortar rounds, automatic rifles and around 10 000 artillery shells. Authorities uncovered the weapons on Thursday in three vehicles near the city of Marsa Matrouh,
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One man was killed and four people wounded as Libyan security forces repelled armed demonstrators who attacked government headquarters in Tripoli, a senior official said. The country's interim prime minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib read out a statement on television denouncing the violence and vowing not to give way to "outlaws" making demands at the end of a gun. The casualties
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Zawiyah - Libya began its first civilian trial of alleged supporters of Muammar Gaddafi's regime on Tuesday, officials said, as five men accused of planning to create instability by "terrorist acts" appeared in the dock. Judge Amer al-Turki did not read out a charge sheet but adjourned the trial, which is being held in the western town of Zawiyah, for
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Libyan authorities on Thursday granted immunity to former rebels who fought to oust Moamer Kadhafi's regime and unveiled legislation that cracks down on the fallen strongman's supporters. "There is no punishment for acts made necessary by the February 17 revolution," read the law published on the National Transitional Council's website. The immunity covers "military, security or civilian acts undertaken by
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Benghazi — In one of the many rooms where detainees are held at Ganfouda detention centre in Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, Suleiman Mansour*, a young Somali from Mogadishu, spends his days locked up along with 15 other migrants. They lie on mattresses propped against the walls, which are scribbled with names and slogans: one says "I love Somalia". "I've
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Tripoli - A letter in which Muammar Gaddafi's regime agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign appears to be fake, Libya's National Transitional Council said on Wednesday. "We think that the letter is fake," NTC chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil told a news conference in Tripoli. Mediapart website last month posted what it said was a 2006 document
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The head of the FBI and Scotland's top prosecutor have visited Libya to assess the ongoing investigation into the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing, Scottish officials said on Wednesday. The director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Mueller, and Scotland's Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland met Libya's interim prime minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib in Tripoli on April 25. Scotland's Crown
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Tripoli — Six months after an uprising brought down Muammar Gaddafi's government, thousands of displaced Libyans are still living in abandoned construction sites, empty student dormitories or with host families, too afraid to return to their homes. "We want to go back but cannot," said Abdul Aziz al-Irwi, who lives in Sidi Slim camp in the capital, Tripoli. "Some people
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Libya has honoured a deadline to hand in a detailed plan on the destruction of its aging stockpile of mustard gas, left from the Gaddafi regime, the world's chemical weapons watchdog said on Monday. "We have received a detailed plan from Libya last week," Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' spokesperson Michael Luhan told AFP, adding "it will now
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Former Libyan oil minister Shukri Ghanem died by drowning but there was no sign of another party being involved "so far", Vienna police said on Monday, a day after Ghanem was found dead in the Danube. "The death was by drowning... no signs of involvement by another party have been detected so far," police spokesperson Roman Hahslinger told journalists, citing
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Libya lacks the resources to control its borders, which are a conduit for weapons and for thousands of illegal immigrants seeking the shores of Europe, an official said on Saturday. "More than 1,000 persons are coming here daily" from Egypt and all over Africa, said General Hamed al-Shalwy, who handles international cooperation for the defence ministry's border guards. "They see
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Libya must clarify the rules under which it disqualifies from public office individuals who stood by the regime of former leader Moamer Kadhafi, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. "Exclusion from public office should be based on concrete and provable claims of wrongdoing, rather than poorly defined connections with the previous government," said HRW Middle East and North Africa director
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Tripoli - The head of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) on Friday denied a report that the interim government had been sacked two months before the country's first free polls. "The council has made no decision about changing the government and we will not make any decisions about a government reshuffle until the beginning of next week," Mustafa Abdel
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A blast ripped through a courthouse in the eastern city of Benghazi on Friday causing serious damage to the building but no casualties, Libyan security sources said. The explosion punched a hole three metres (10 feet) in diameter through the walls of the courthouse on Meidan al-Shajara, a public square flanked by several government offices and the National Oil Corporation,
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Tripoli - Libya's interim prime minister accused the ruling National Transitional Council on Wednesday of hindering his government's efforts to hold elections for a constituent assembly on time. "In this historic moment, we find ourselves shackled by members of the National Transitional Council who continue to attack the government and threaten to cast a no confidence vote," Abdel Rahman al-Kib
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Libya's interim prime minister accused the ruling National Transitional Council on Wednesday of hindering his government's efforts to hold elections for a constituent assembly on time. "In this historic moment, we find ourselves shackled by members of the National Transitional Council who continue to attack the government and threaten to cast a no confidence vote," Abdel Rahman al-Kib said. "This
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The International Criminal Court on Wednesday threw out an appeal filed by Libya against the court's demand that Moamer Kadhafi's jailed son be transferred to The Hague. The Libyan state had filed an appeal on April 6 against the ICC's request for the immediate transfer of Seif al-Islam, wanted for crimes against humanity and detained in Libya in the aftermath
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