
Today it has been reported that the son of Muammar Gaddafi, has been sentenced to death by a court in Libya. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has received the death penalty alongside eight other figures from the former dictatorship, including the erstwhile intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi. However, according to the United Nations and other NGO’s, the trial was undercut by serious due process infringements and reported that Libya missed a vital chance to deliver justice in the post-Gaddafi era.
To learn more about this story, please read the following links.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2015/07/28/libya-flawed-trial-gaddafi-officials
Also read the official statement from United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL): http://unsmil.unmissions.org/Default.aspx?tabid=3543&ctl=Details&mid=6187&ItemID=2099165&language=en-US
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Text sources: The Guardian, July 28th 2015 and Human Rights Watch, July 28th 2015