ICC says Gadhafi's son will be arrested
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November 10, 2011, Thursday
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SEIF al-Islam Gadhafi will eventually face justice in The Hague but it's not clear where the son of Libya's former dictator is hiding, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said yesterday.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo also said he was making headway with an investigation into allegations of widespread rapes by Gadhafi supporters.
Asked if he believed the rapes were part of an organized campaign, Moreno-Ocampo said, "I think so. We have one witness who was a soldier who says he received instructions to rape."
Investigators are now trying to pin down exactly who ordered the sex attacks. "We are trying to connect the rapes with instructions given by commanders," he said.
Meanwhile, the court's investigators are "following information about the probable whereabouts" of Seif al-Islam and former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi "and we are encouraging efforts to arrest them."
The two were indicted by the International Criminal Court in June for unleashing a campaign of murder and torture to suppress the uprising against the Gadhafi regime that broke out in February. Gadhafi himself also was indicted, but the case against him will be dropped after he died at the hands of rebels who captured him last month in his hometown of Sirte.
Unlike his father, Seif al-Islam is believed to have slipped out of the country.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo also said he was making headway with an investigation into allegations of widespread rapes by Gadhafi supporters.
Asked if he believed the rapes were part of an organized campaign, Moreno-Ocampo said, "I think so. We have one witness who was a soldier who says he received instructions to rape."
Investigators are now trying to pin down exactly who ordered the sex attacks. "We are trying to connect the rapes with instructions given by commanders," he said.
Meanwhile, the court's investigators are "following information about the probable whereabouts" of Seif al-Islam and former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi "and we are encouraging efforts to arrest them."
The two were indicted by the International Criminal Court in June for unleashing a campaign of murder and torture to suppress the uprising against the Gadhafi regime that broke out in February. Gadhafi himself also was indicted, but the case against him will be dropped after he died at the hands of rebels who captured him last month in his hometown of Sirte.
Unlike his father, Seif al-Islam is believed to have slipped out of the country.
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