UN alarmed by attack on court handling Gaddafi case
The UN has expressed alarm about a reported attack on a Libyan court where Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s lawyer was trying to lodge an appeal against his ban from next month’s presidential election.
The son of the late Libyan dictator was disqualified on Thursday by Libya’s election commission, on the basis of a 2015 conviction for war crimes by a Tripoli court.
Mr Gaddafi’s lawyer, Khaled al-Zaidi, said armed men had raided the court in the southern city of Sebha and had stopped him entering to lodge his client’s appeal.
Sebha is under the control of a group allied to Khalifa Haftar, another of the main candidates.
