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12/22/11

Libya: Gadhafi’s jailed son Seif al-Islam tells Human Rights Watch he hasn’t seen lawyer, family

Moammar Gadhafi’s captured son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, is being treated well but has not had access to a lawyer, an international rights group said Wednesday after visiting the prisoner in a mountain stronghold of Libya’s ex-rebel fighters.

Seif al-Islam, who has been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, was captured in November by fighters from the town of Zintan in Libya’s western mountains, one of the key centers of the rebellion against Gadhafi. The Zintan fighters continue to hold him, and Libya’s national leadership in Tripoli is insisting on trying him at home, though they have yet to establish a functional court system.

Seif al-Islam “had no complaints about the physical conditions of his detention” but “his main concern was the lack of access to family and to a lawyer,” said Fred Abrahams, a special adviser with the rights group who visited the prisoner on Sunday.

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