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PressStatement

TheInternationalCriminalCourt(ICC)issuesarrestwarrantsforMoammerGadaffi,Saif-el-

IslamGadaffiandAbdullaSenussi

27June2011

TheInternationalCriminalCourt(ICC)hastodayissuedarrestwarrantsforMoammerGadaffi,Saif-el-IslamGadaffiandAbdullaSenussiontwochargesofcrimesagainsthumanity:murder,andpersecution.

LawyersforJusticeinLibya(LFJL)welcomesthisdecisionandstronglybelievesthattheissuanceof

thesewarrantspubliclysignalstotheregimethatimpunitywillnotbetoleratedfortheperpetratorsofcrimesagainsthumanityandthoseresponsibleforwidespreadatrocities.LFJLcanconfirmthroughits

researchonthegroundthatthereisevidencethatcrimesagainsthumanityhavebeencommitted.

ThearrestwarrantsfollowtheapplicationmadebyICCProsecutorLuisMoreno-Ocampoon16May

2011,followingtheunprecedentedunanimousreferralbytheUNSecurityCounciltotheProsecutorof

theICCofthesituationinLibyaunderUNSecurityResolution1970.Thespeedofboththereferraland

theissuanceofthearrestwarrantssignifiesthecollectivewilloftheinternationalcommunitytowork

towardajust,legitimateanddemocraticfuturefortheLibyanpeopleaprospectwefirmlybelievecan

onlybeachievedthroughthetransparencyofanimpartialandfairjudicialprocess.

MoammerGadaffi,Saif-el-IslamGadaffiandAbdullaSenussimustnowsurrenderthemselvestofacetrialattheICC.Iftheydonotdoso,theLibyanauthoritieshavealegalobligationunderUNResolution

1970toimplementthewarrantsandtoensurethateachisarrestedandextraditedtoTheHague.

Everycountryhasanobligationtodenythosenamedinthearrestwarrantssafehavenand,iftheyseek

toentertheterritoryofsuchcountry,toarrestthemandsurrenderthemtotheICC.Inparticular,LFJL

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welcomesthenewsofTunisiasaccessiontotheRomeStatute,andcallsonitssupportshouldanyof

thosechargedintheICCswarrantsseektofleethroughorgotogroundinTunisianterritory.

LFLJseesthisprocessasanimportantfirststeptowardsLibyabecomingasocietygovernedbyruleof

law.LFJLiscommittedtodefendingrightsofallLibyans,andwillcontinuetosupportalllawful

prosecutionofthoseresponsibleforhumanrightsviolations.

LawyersforJusticeinLibya(LFJL)isanindependentnon-governmentalorganisationworkingtoprotect

andpromotehumanrightsandfundamentalfreedomsinLibya.AnyqueriestoLFJLshouldbemadethroughinfo@libyanjustice.org.

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