Alexandra Valiente
Libya 360°
Saif Al Islam Gaddafi After Capture
Saif Al Islam Gaddafi was taken captive by the Zintan rebels over one month ago. He has developed gangrene in his injured hand where his fingers were severed and bones shattered and requires immediate surgery.
Further, he is denied access to his legal counsel.
The ICRC refuse to discuss his condition with either his immediate family or his legal counsel. These are clear violations of International law.
Saif Al Islam is at immanent risk of execution.
The following document is the Gaddafi family’s initial response to the ICC charges against Saif Al Islam and Abdullah Al Senussi:
The following chronicles one of the the current efforts of the Gaddafi family to protect Saif Al Islam Gaddafi. This will be be updated soon.:
THE GADDAFI FAMILY TAKE LEGAL ACTION TO PROTECT SAIF AL ISLAM
Recent updates pertaining to Saif Al Islam Gaddafi’s status can be found at these links and more will be added over the next few days:
THE TROUBLING CASE OF SAIF GADDAFI
THE ICC HAND SAIF GADDAFI OVER TO THE NTC FOR TRIAL AND SENTENCING
WILL THE U.N. INSIST ON FAIR TRIALS IN LIBYA?
On behalf of the Gaddafi family and Saif Al Islam Gaddafi, I implore readers to assist us by submitting appeals for compassionate intervention to the following, reminding them of their duty to honor and uphold these laws:
THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS
CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
United Nations New York
NY 10017 USA
212-963-5012
fax: 212-963-7055
ecu@un.org
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
High Commissioner Ms. Navanethem Pillay
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
infoDesk@ohchr.org
Amnesty International
+44 (0) 20 7413 5566 +44 7778 472 126
gvunpost@amnesty.org
press@amnesty.org
amnesty-eu@aieu.be
mena@amnesty.org
ai-aro@amnesty.org
msk@amnesty.org
Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue
34th floor New York
NY 10118-3299 USA
Tel: +1 212 290 4700
Fax: +1 212 736 1300
hrwnyc@hrw.org
51, Avenue Blanc
1202 Geneva Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 738 0481
Fax: +41 22 738 1791
hrwgva@hrw.org
2-12 Pentonville Road 2nd Floor
London N1 9HF
UK Tel: +44 20 7713 1995
Fax: +44 20 7713 1800
hrwuk@hrw.org
Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights Council of Europe
Strasbourg, FRANCE
+ 33 (0)3 88 41 34 21
+ 33 (0)3 90 21 50 53
press.commissioner@coe.int
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
19 Avenue de la paix CH 1202 Geneva
Tel: +41 22 734 60 01 Fax: +41 22 733 20 57
webmaster@icrc.org
ICRC delegations: Libya
These are the key ICRC contacts to target:
ICRC delegation
Ibrahim Al Houni Street
10.53.050
Diagonally Opposite Brother’s Clinic (Al Okhowa)
Nouflieen,TRIPOLI
Phone: (+218) 21 3409 331, +218 21 340 92 62
mobile: (+218) 91 941 80 66, +218 92 523 65 82
tri_tripoli@icrc.org
Head of delegation:
Mr Georges Comninos
Media contact person:
Ms MESSOUDI Soaade
(+218) 913 066 198
Languages spoken: English/French/Arabic
ICRC Benghazi Al Andalus Street, Al Fwihat, Benghazi, LIBYA
Phone:( + 218) 92 807 7405
Head of offce: Mr. Patrick Schwaerzler
ben_benghazi@icrc.org
Media contact person:
Ms Dibeh FAKHR Mobile:
+218 (0) 92 330 4560 Sat: +870 772 390 124
Languages spoken: English/French/Arabic/Spanish
*Additional contact email addresses can be found here and if you choose to include these, I strongly encourage specifically targeting the Venezuela, Cuba, the African Union, individual African Nations, Russia and China.
International Media Contacts:
letters@msnbc.com
onlyonfox@foxnews.com
editor@nypost.com
editor@nypost.com
stella.dawson@reuters.com
contact@lefigaro.fr
mail@mondepub.fr
letters@examiner.ie
letters@thetimes.co.uk
insight@sunday-times.co.uk
letters@guardian.co.uk
mena@amnesty.org
gvunpost@amnesty.org
ai-aro@amnesty.org
msk@amnesty.org
hrwnyc@hrw.org
berlin@hrw.org
press.commissioner@coe.int
stella.dawson@reuters.com
mail@mondepub.fr
letters@examiner.ie
Letters@thetimes.co.uk
insight@sunday-times.co.uk
letters@guardian.co.uk
hrwgva@hrw.org
rusun.press@gmail.com
rusun@un.int
press@amnesty.org
blatche@hrw.org
paris@hrw.org
international@guardian.co.uk
foreigneditor@independent.co.uk
foreign@washpost.com
aji-london-newsdesk@aljazeera.net
anthea.lipsett@guardian.co.uk
news@standard.co.uk
newseditor@independent.co.uk
news@dailymirror.co.uk
press.int@aljazeera.net
londonnews@bbc.co.uk
news@sky.com
jon.snow@itn.co.uk
politics.editor@london-student.net
politics@guardian.co.uk
englishnews@alarabiya.net
laura.tait@newsint.co.uk
bo.wilson@thelondonlite.co.uk
bccreports@socialistworker.co.uk
info@electronicintifada.net
editorial@camdennewjournal.co.uk
news.london@ukmetro.co.uk
5live.planning@bbc.co.uk
5newsdesk@itn.co.uk
fourmanfilms@hotmail.co.uk
filkaler@googlemail.com
stguest2@sunday-times.co.uk
news@standard.co.uk
cceditor@standard.co.uk
d.macleod@guardian.co.uk
r.mccarthy@guardian.co.uk
reports@socialistworker.co.uk
worldwidetv.letters@bbc.co.uk
mschwanhausser@sjmercury.com
insidetrack@toronto.cbc.ca
jonathannicholas@news.oregonian.com
jennifer.ruark@chronicle.com
tpugh@krwashington.com
JWeeks@dallasnews.com
submissions@commondreams.org
lbeil@dallasnews.com
kathy.kristof@latimes.com
U.N. AND LIBYA
THE ICC AND LIBYA
Saif Al Islam Gaddafi stands in front of one of the paintings he exhibited in London in 2002.
The Art Of Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi
This appeal campaign is © Copyright 2011 by Libya 360° and Viva Libya!. Republication is strictly forbidden. You are however permitted, encouraged and welcome to post the link to the original letter of appeal and petition. On behalf of Libya’s political prisoners, we thank you for your support and cooperation.
Alexandra
December 2, 2011
More videos from a working group trying to help save Saif>>
Saif Gaddafi’s Statement Following His Capture
Those captured with Saif
Libya ex-rebels get key posts in cabinet lineup – Saif Being Used As Bargaining Chip
Imed Lamloum | AFP
Former rebels who helped to topple Libya’s late dictator Moamer Kadhafi and a human rights lawyer whose arrest sparked the uprising were handed key posts in a new government unveiled on Tuesday.
Interim prime minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib announced the new cabinet line-up at a news conference just a month after the capture and lynching of Kadhafi who ruled the country with an iron-fist for 42 years.
“I can reassure everyone: all of Libya is (represented) in the new government,” Kib told reporters of the line-up which had originally been due to be announced on Sunday.
The delay in its unveiling was apparently caused by the arrest on Saturday of Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, the prominent son and onetime heir-apparent of the slain dictator.
Osama Juili, commander of the Zintan fighters who arrested Seif, got the defence ministry, while the interior ministry went to Fawzi Abdelali from the former rebel town of Misrata, whose fighters captured Kadhafi in October.
Kib chose Ashur bin Khayyal, Libya’s envoy to Canada under the Kadhafi regime who joined the opposition in the 1990s, to head the foreign ministry, while Abdelrahman bin Yazza — a former official at Italy’s energy major ENI — becomes interim oil and gas minister.
Lawyer Fethi Tarbel, whose brief arrest on February 15 was the spark that lit the popular uprising against Kadhafi’s regime in the eastern city of Benghazi, was named minister of youth and sport.
Kib will head a 24-member government which will include such portfolios as the ministry of martyrs, wounded and missing people, and a ministry of civilian society.
The National Transitional Council gave the new government its vote of confidence, NTC vice chairman and official spokesman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga said.
The NTC, whose rebel fighters backed by NATO air support toppled Kadhafi in October, chose Kib, a little-known university professor from Tripoli, on October 31 to form an interim government.
Having declared the country’s “liberation” three days after the October 20 capture and killing of Kadhafi, the NTC has launched a roadmap to a new Libya with a 20-month countdown to a general election.
Under the roadmap, the NTC is to hand over power to a 200-member elected assembly within eight months which in turn has two months to name a premier whose government must form a commission to draw up a constitution.
The NTC published its roadmap in August and is due to step down once the congress holds its first session.
Kib had said the new government would be formed of technocrats, although he came under pressure from Libya’s tribes and numerous armed factions which had also demanded a role.
An NTC statement distributed after Kib unveiled his government spelled out the tasks expected to be accomplished by the cabinet, with the “restoration of normal life.”
“This provisional government aims to achieve the following: first security, stability and restoration of normal life by providing basic social services, the return of children to their schools and the payment of (overdue) salaries,” it said.
It also pledged to establish “justice which guarantees the rights of individuals who have been harmed over the past 42 years and also which guarantees those accused a fair trial.”
The new government, the statement said, will help efforts by the NTC “to achieve national reconciliation” in Libya.
It will also strive to rebuild the army and the security forces and promote “the integration of interested citizens into these institutions.”
Hours before Kib’s news conference, the Zintan military council whose fighters captured Seif al-Islam issued a statement denying that the defence ministry would be given to Juili as a bribe because his men allegedly refused to hand over Kadhafi’s son to the NTC.
“The Zintan military council denies the information published by media according to which Zintan is involved in blackmail regarding Seif al-Islam in return for a cabinet post,” a statement said.
It said Seif was being held in Zintan “for security reasons in agreement with the National Transitional Council.”
In Geneva, the International Committee of the Red Cross said two of its representatives met Seif on Tuesday for several hours in Zintan.
“He appeared to be in good health,” spokesman Steven Anderson told AFP, adding: “The organisation’s findings are being shared with the detaining authorities only.”
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I have Aisha Gaddafi’s last message from November 29, 2011 posted here.
She verifies that Khamis, Mu’tassim and Muammar Gaddafi are dead and that Saif is a political prisoner, not safe with Zintani friends.
Support the campaign to save Saif.
Please spread the word. Aisha took a personal risk delivering this message.