{"id":234004,"date":"2026-05-22T04:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-landmark-first-hearing-in-libya-atrocity-case-icc\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:17:08","slug":"libya-landmark-first-hearing-in-libya-atrocity-case-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-landmark-first-hearing-in-libya-atrocity-case-icc\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Landmark First Hearing in Libya Atrocity Case &#8211; ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">The Hague \u2014 <em>Libyan Authorities Should Transfer Remaining Suspects to the Court<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/topic\/international-justice\/international-criminal-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Criminal Court<\/a>&#8216;s (ICC) upcoming landmark hearing in the case of Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes, is a long-awaited breakthrough for victims of serious crimes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/n-africa\/libya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libya<\/a>, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"84\">From May 19 to 21, 2026, ICC judges will hear evidence against El Hishri in a &#8220;confirmation of charges&#8221; hearing to determine whether the case against him&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605210032.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hague \u2014 Libyan Authorities Should Transfer Remaining Suspects to the Court The International Criminal Court&#8216;s (ICC) upcoming landmark hearing in the case of Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes, is a long-awaited breakthrough for victims of serious crimes in Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. From May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":234005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681503:f1eefe0bcbbc57f958ebd923004c58bb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,27687,6683,6636,599,12583,4711,892,257,254],"class_list":["post-234004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atrocity","tag-case","tag-hearing","tag-icc","tag-landmark","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681503:f1eefe0bcbbc57f958ebd923004c58bb:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}