{"id":8513,"date":"2013-06-18T05:06:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T05:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/libya-to-try-gaddafi-son-in-august\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T05:06:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T05:06:25","slug":"libya-to-try-gaddafi-son-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/libya-to-try-gaddafi-son-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya to try Gaddafi son in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The trial of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s son, his spy chief, and his last prime minister will take place in August, a top Libyan official has announced.}}<\/p>\n<p>Al-Seddik al-Sur of the state prosecutor&#8217;s office told reporters on Monday that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Abdullah al-Senoussi and ex-premier al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, along with ex-spokesman Milad Daman, will be tried for crimes committed during  Gaddafi&#8217;s 42-year rule and during the eight-month civil war that deposed him.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Libya appealed the International Criminal Court&#8217;s order to try Saif al-Islam in The Hague. <\/p>\n<p>Libya also asked for suspension of its order to hand him over to the ICC.<\/p>\n<p>Saif al-Islam is being held by a militia in the Libyan town of Zintan. <\/p>\n<p>ICC judges ruled that Libya will not be able to give Saif al-Islam a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p>With no national army or police in place since the fall of Gadhafi&#8217;s regime, successive governments have been too weak to either secure Saif al-Islam&#8217;s imprisonment in the capital, Tripoli, or put pressure on his captors to hand him over to the government. <\/p>\n<p>Gaddafi&#8217;s son is also being tried on separate charges of harming state security.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2979 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fgh.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The trial of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s son, his spy chief, and his last prime minister will take place in August, a top Libyan official has announced.}} Al-Seddik al-Sur of the state prosecutor&#8217;s office told reporters on Monday that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Abdullah al-Senoussi and ex-premier al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, along with ex-spokesman Milad Daman, will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}