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TRIPOLI. — Saif al-Islam, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has demanded to be tried in the western Libyan city of Zintan rather than Tripoli.
“There is no difference between Zintan and capital Tripoli,” Saif told the country’s Alaseema TV in his first television appearance under detention.
Libyan Attorney General Abdel Kader Radwan recently issued a request to the court in Zintan to hand over Saif al-Islam in order that the Criminal Court should try him along with other 36 Gaddafi-era officials accused of war crimes committed during the 2011 uprising. But the militia group in control of Zintan has refused due to security concerns. — Xinhua.
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