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Raisethefist.com: Lawyers warned of risks in Libya
Lawyers warned of risks in Libya
by anonymous Thu Jun 14 18:59:26 PDT 2012
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THE International Criminal Court was warned about safety for its defence counsel in Libya three months before the Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor and three fellow ICC staff were arrested by local authorities.
The revelations emerged as a ICC defence lawyer for Muammar Gaddafi's daughter said the situation engulfing Ms Taylor may have been inflamed by highly critical filings from the defence's office targeting the ICC's prosecution team and the Libyan authorities.
Ms Taylor, of Brisbane, was arrested in Zintan after being accused of exchanging papers with Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, whom she is representing for the ICC's Office of Public Counsel for the Defence (OPCD).
The purpose of the visit had been for Ms Taylor and others to discuss the ongoing challenge by the Libyans to the ICC's move to try Mr Gaddafi and also to appoint an ICC defence counsel for him.
But ICC court documents show that during the previous visit to Libya, problems had also occurred relating to ''insufficient security'' for the OPCD's senior counsel Xavier-Jean Keita.
Mr Keita was excluded by the Libyans from the visit in March to Mr Gaddafi because of fears his African heritage might make him a target of rebels who were still angry over the role of African mercenaries who fought for the Gaddafi regime.
''Due to the widespread use of African mercenaries in murdering civilians during the 2011 revolution, male Africans in Libya are unfortunately at considerable personal risk from some former rebels who seek to be able to retaliate for atrocities,'' said the May 30 response by the Libyan government to one of the OPCD's defence requests.
The Libyans detailed the security issue as a response to ''outrageous'' OPCD claims that delays in visiting Mr Gaddafi had been due to racial discrimination by the Libyan government.
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