{"id":4445,"date":"2014-07-25T11:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T04:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2014-07-25T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T05:00:09","slug":"gaddafis-spy-chief-to-be-tried-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/gaddafis-spy-chief-to-be-tried-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaddafi&#8217;s spy chief to be tried in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have upheld a decision that allows Libyan authorities to put on trial a former Gadaffi intelligence chief over human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals panel confirmed Thursday that the case against Abdullah al-Senoussi, who is currently detained in Libya, should not be handled by the Hague-based court because prosecutors in Libya are pursuing similar charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC indicted Senoussi in 2011 on charges of murder and persecution allegedly committed during Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s failed attempt to crush a popular revolt in 2011, which succeeded in toppling the leader&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/07\/gaddafi-spy-chief-be-tried-libya-20147241337569205.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have upheld a decision that allows Libyan authorities to put on trial a former Gadaffi intelligence chief over human rights abuses. The appeals panel confirmed Thursday that the case against Abdullah al-Senoussi, who is currently detained in Libya, should not be handled by the Hague-based court because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[3180,258,256,3179,1454,599,600,4711,892,2687,257,4694,254,3181],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-abdullah-al-senoussi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gadaffi","tag-human-rights-abuses","tag-icc","tag-international-criminal-court","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-muammar-gaddafi","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-the-hague-based-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}