TRIPOLI, June 12, 2012 (AFP)
TRIPOLI, June 12, 2012 (AFP)
International Criminal Court (ICC) envoys in Libya were to visit on Tuesday four colleagues who were detained in the western Hilltown of Zintan, officials sources told AFP.
“The ICC delegation is on its way to Zintan,” said Ajmi al-Atiri, commander of the brigade that detained Australian lawyer Melinda Taylor and three of her colleagues following a meeting with Moamer Kadhafi’s son, Seif al-Islam.
Ahmed al-Jehani, Libya’s envoy to the ICC, confirmed the visit.
“The other (ICC) delegation is on their way to them,” Jehani told AFP.
“An ICC lawyer is part of that delegation,” he said.
Taylor and her team was transferred to a prison in Zintan on Sunday, the same day that a new ICC mission arrived in Tripoli to negotiate with the Libyan authorities.
The ministry of defence oversees the prison where the ICC envoys are held, Atiri told AFP. He said the men in his brigade, Abu Bakr al-Sadiq, have all registered with the ministry of interior or defence.
Tripoli accuses Taylor of exchanging documents that represent a threat to national security with Seif al-Islam, who has been held in Zintan since his capture November 19 last year.
The Hague-based tribunal has called for their “immediate release.”
