Muammar Gaddafi

[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Thursday released a report [text] accusing the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) [official website] in Libya of allowing the abuse and torture of supporters of former leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive] by unofficial militias. In the report, AI alleges that supporters of Gaddafi are being unlawfully detained, tortured and even killed by militias that the...  

GENEVA (Reuters) - Subsidiaries of Libya's sovereign wealth fund are no longer subject to a freeze on their assets abroad under an informal easing of U.N. sanctions targeting the regime of late leader Muammar Gaddafi, a U.N. panel of experts ...  

New York: The armed militias now ruling much of Libya are torturing detainees deemed loyal to the ousted regime of Muammar Gaddafi and driving entire neighborhoods and towns into exile, Amnesty International said. Amnesty International quoted detainees as ...  

The news that the Libyan prime minister under Muammar Gaddafi, Baghdadi Mahmoudi, was acquitted by a Tunisian court yesterday of charges of illegally entering Tunisia was met with reactions of indignation in Libya today. Hala Markous, originally from ...  

Muammar Gaddafi's body has been buried in secret after being displayed in public, in an ignominious end for Libya's longtime ruler, as the new regime today asked NATO ... The bodies had been put on display in a market freezer on the outskirts of Misrata ...  

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son and one-time heir apparent of toppled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will be moved to a Tripoli prison within two months and then face trial, the chairman of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC ...  

RABAT, February 12 (Itar-Tass) - The Niger government is ready to extradite the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saadi, to the International Criminal Court, if The Hague demands this. ...  

Abuzaid Dorda, the detained former Libyan prime minister and head of foreign intelligence under Muammar Gaddafi, needs immediate access to a lawyer and specialized medical care for injuries sustained in custody, Human Rights Watch said today. The Libyan ...  

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan jewellery shopkeeper Hassan El-Kekli used to be careful what he said on the phone to his family and friends. Any criticism of Muammar Gaddafi's regime was off-limits for fear security officials listening in could show ...  

TUNIS Feb 14 (Reuters) - A Tunisian court has dropped charges against former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's prime minister for illegally entering the country, his lawyer said, but Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi remains in jail pending a decision ...  

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - When Muammar Gaddafi seized power in 1969 he pledged to eliminate tribalism and unite Libya. But throughout the next 42 years - especially when his popularity wavered - Gaddafi succumbed to the temptation to toy with tribal ...  

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya urged Niger Saturday to extradite Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi, saying his call for Libyans to prepare for a "coming uprising" threatened bilateral ties. Niger responded that it could not hand over Saadi, who fled south to the West ...  

Saadi Gaddafi, one of the sons of Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi, has promised to return to his country where he said a nationwide rebellion was brewing against its new rulers. "I will return to Libya at any time," Saadi Gaddafi told Al ...  

Tripoli: Muammar Gaddafi's son Sa'adi has warned of an "imminent uprising" in Libya, saying he was in regular contact with people in the country who were unhappy with the authorities put in place after killing of his father. Speaking to Al Arabiya ...  

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addressed the country on national television where he charged the western imperialist states of backing the rebels that are trying to destroy the unity and sovereingty of this oil-rich North African state., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.February 11, 2012 11:52 AM Libya asks Niger to hand over Gadhafi's sonTRIPOLI, Libya — Libya demanded Niger hand over one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons who is...