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TRIPOLI. — Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s second-eldest son, Saif al-Islam, made a rare appearance yesterday in a court in Libya’s Zintan, west of the capital Tripoli on security charges.A source in the court told Xinhua that the Zintan court postponed the trial against Saif al-Islam to December 12, 2013, in order to allow the presence of another six defendants in the trial. Saif al-Islam was supposed to be transferred to Tripoli criminal court to stand trial, however, the militia group in control of the town had refused to hand him over due to security concerns.
Meanwhile, 37 other Gaddafi-era officials attended a pre-trial session yesterday in Tripoli over crimes committed during the 2011 uprising, including former spy chief Abdallah Al- Senussi and Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, the last prime minister under Gaddafi’s administration.
An official source said Senussi denied all charges against him, saying “I have evidence to prove my innocence of the charges against me.” The source added that all defendants left the court compound from the main gate, while Senussi went with security forces to another gate. — Xinhua.
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