The ICC got custody of a Libyan guy named Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri after Germany handed him over from detention. German cops grabbed him at the Berlin airport back in the summer when he was flying through, and they held onto him until all the legal paperwork got sorted out. He ran Mitiga Prison in Tripoli for a militia group called Al-Radaa, and prosecutors say he committed murder, torture, and rape against detainees over five years.
His arrest is kind of a big deal because Libya never actually joined the Rome Statute treaty, but they accepted ICC jurisdiction over crimes on their turf anyway. The UN Security Council pushed the ICC to investigate Libya years ago, and there are still nine more arrest warrants floating around from that probe.
His arrest is kind of a big deal because Libya never actually joined the Rome Statute treaty, but they accepted ICC jurisdiction over crimes on their turf anyway. The UN Security Council pushed the ICC to investigate Libya years ago, and there are still nine more arrest warrants floating around from that probe.
