Libya has been wracked by civil war since the fall of Gaddafi.
Germany handed over a Libyan suspect of war crimes to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the court announced on Monday. The defendant is accused of several crimes, including murder, torture and rape. TASR informs about it according to the report of the DPA agency.
- Germany handed over a Libyan war crimes suspect to the ICC.
- The defendant is accused of murder, torture and rape.
- He worked in Mitiga prison, where victims were abused in 2015-2020.
- Arrested at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport on the basis of an international arrest warrant.
- Libya has been wracked by civil war since the fall of Gaddafi.
According to the court, the man worked in the management of the Mitiga prison in Tripoli, where several detainees were allegedly subjected to ill-treatment and abuse between 2015 and 2020.
Allegations of torture
The Libyan is accused of having participated in this treatment of the person and issued the regulations that enabled it, DPA specifies.
Federal police detained the suspect in July of this year at Berlin-Brandenburg Airport on the basis of an international arrest warrant issued by the ICC.
The panel of experts established by the UN Security Council previously documented the arbitrary detention, confiscation of property and sexual humiliation of female prisoners by male guards in the aforementioned facility in Tripoli.
The civil war broke out in Libya after the fall of the regime of the local leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, DPA reminds. To this day, countless militias and two hostile governments are fighting for power and influence in the country.
