{"id":242236,"date":"2026-08-26T07:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-landmark-icc-trial-on-libya-migrant-abuses-must-lead-to-more-scrutiny-of-eu-complicity\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:52:54","slug":"libya-landmark-icc-trial-on-libya-migrant-abuses-must-lead-to-more-scrutiny-of-eu-complicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-landmark-icc-trial-on-libya-migrant-abuses-must-lead-to-more-scrutiny-of-eu-complicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Landmark ICC Trial On Libya Migrant Abuses Must Lead to More Scrutiny of EU Complicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Berlin \u2014 &#8220;Anyone who violates people&#8217;s rights should face the consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In late July, judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) unanimously voted to confirm charges against former Libyan security official Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, paving the way for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cpi.int\/libya\/el-hishri\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his case<\/a> to move to trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">El Hishri stands accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes including imprisonment, torture, rape, murder, enslavement, and persecution against Libyan and non-Libyan detainees &#8211; among them migrants&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608260006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Berlin \u2014 &#8220;Anyone who violates people&#8217;s rights should face the consequences.&#8221; In late July, judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) unanimously voted to confirm charges against former Libyan security official Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, paving the way for his case to move to trial. El Hishri stands accused of crimes against humanity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":242237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[8396,258,256,8395,599,12583,7358,4711,892,4729,257,12040,254,6564],"class_list":["post-242236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-abuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-complicity","tag-icc","tag-landmark","tag-lead","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-migrant","tag-news","tag-scrutiny","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242236","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=242236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}