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Contact details
International Criminal Court
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Tel: + 31 (0)70 515 8515
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URL (English): http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html&l=en
Lawyers file charges against Sarkozy's warcrimes in Libya (Sept 19, 2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo7gj1LHAuQ
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/libyas-first-lady-owns-airline-company-20-tonnes-of-gold-report_100511660.html
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Libya’s First Lady owns airline company, 20 tonnes of gold: Report
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 8:32:41 AM by IANS ( Leave a comment )
Dubai, March 8 (IANS) Libya’s First Lady Safia Farkash al-Baraasi has amassed enormous wealth, including the airline company Buraq Air and 20 tonnes of gold, a media report said.
Although the First Lady has not been in the limelight unlike her Tunisian and Egyptian counterparts, she wields considerable influence, the Al Arabiya channel reported.
She operates the airline with the approval of her husband even though it rivals the Libyan national carrier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi
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Focus on activities in Africa
Further information: United States of Africa
See also: African Union
In the early 1980s, Gaddafi played a key role in the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa. His image as a revolutionary inspired many South Africans to fight for their liberation, and he was largely responsible for funding and arming the Anti-Apartheid Movement as it fought the Apartheid regime and white minority rule. As a result, Gaddafi began gaining considerable popularity in South Africa and other African countries. He was also responsible for supporting and funding Nelson Mandela's election campaign. He continued to maintain a close friendship with Mandela, who named his grandson after Gaddafi. In turn, Mandela later played a key role in helping Gaddafi gain mainstream acceptance in the Western world later in the 1990s.[154] Over the years, Gaddafi would be seen as a "hero" in much of Africa.[155http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8393320/Libya-Sarkozy-and-Gadaffi-before-they-fell-out.html
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Libya: Sarkozy and Gadaffi before they fell out
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, met world leaders in Paris at exactly the same place he had welcomed Colonel Gaddafi more than three years ago.
Mr Sarkozy once enjoyed a cordial relationship with Col Gaddafi Photo: AFP/GETTY
What a difference the passing of time can make.
Just over three years ago, in December 2007, President Nicolas Sarkozy was welcoming Gadaffi to Paris and insisting to a French newspaper: “Gaddafi is not perceived as a dictator in the Arab world.”
“He is the longest serving head of state in the region,” Mr Sarkozy explained as he rolled out the red carpet.
“And in the Arab world, that counts,”
http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-son-war-crime-court-957/
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Col. Gaddafi is dead and details of his murky deals with Western leaders have been buried with him. But Gaddafi’s son is safe and reportedly ready to surrender to the International Criminal Court, where he may spill secrets of his father’s regime.
The court’s chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said on Friday he is in contact with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi through intermediaries. He has reportedly crossed the border from the Libyan desert into Niger. If he does eventually stand a trial, he could spill some of the secrets of the regime's hidden dealings with the same governments that helped topple his father.
From the perspective of Blair, Sarkozy and many others, Muammar Gaddafi was a man who knew too much. Expediency dictated that he be buried along with his secrets.
http://www.only4humor.com/2011/04/why-rupert-murdoch-is-furious-at.html
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Mr. Gaddafi's actions drew immediate criticism from Fox owner Rupert Murdoch: "A brutal dictator who is hostile to journalism? It definitely sounds like he is ripping me off."
http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-son-hague-ntc-815/
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Gaddafi son wants to surrender to The Hague – NTC
Published: 26 October, 2011, 21:17
Saif al-Islam Kadhafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (AFP Photo / Imed Lamloum)
TRENDS: Libyan conflict
Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son and heir apparent, Saif al-Islam, and ex-intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi have reportedly suggested turning themselves in to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
The news comes from NTC senior Libyan military official Abdel Majid Mlegta, as quoted by Reuters.
The news comes from NTC senior Libyan military official Abdel Majid Mlegta, as quoted by Reuters.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/16/sarkozy-election-campaign-libya-claim
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Sarkozy election campaign was funded by Libya – Gaddafi son
Saif al-Islam threatens to publish details of bank transfers to punish French PM for backing Libyan rebels
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: 'Give us back our money.' Photograph: Sabri Elmhedwi/EPA
Muammar Gaddafi's son has claimed that Libya helped finance Nicolas Sarkozy's successful election campaign in 2007, and demanded that the French president return the money to "the Libyan people".
In an interview with the Euronews TV channel, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said Libya had details of bank transfers and was ready to make them public in a move designed to punish Sarkozy for throwing his weight behind opposition forces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safia_Farkash
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1) Business and other interests
Farkash kept a low profile during the initial period of her marriage to Gaddafi. However, after the release on license of Lockerbie bomber Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi in 2009, she took a more public profile. She organised a party covered by the local media to celebrate the anniversary of the 1969 revolution that brought her husband to power, and in 2010 attended the graduation of female police students.[1]
In 2008, Farkash was elected vice president to the African First Ladies Organization in a meeting of African Union leaders in Sharm al-Sheikh, even though she was not present at the meeting, and has never taken part in activities related to it.[1]
Farkash owns airline Buraq Air, headquartered at Mittiga International Airport. Operated with the approval of her husband, even though it is a rival of the Libyan national carrier, it monopolizes the transfer of Libyan Hajj pilgrims to Mecca.[1]
It is estimated that Farkash’s has an independent wealth of US$30Bn, which includes 20 tons of gold.[1]
2) 2011 Libyan civil war
As the Battle for Tripoli reached a climax in mid-August, the family were forced to abandon their fortified compound. On 27 August, it was reported by the Egyptian news agency Mena that Libyan rebel fighters had seen six armoured Mercedes-Benz sedans, possibly carrying top Gaddafi regime figures, cross the border at the south-western Libyan town of Ghadames towards Algeria,[32] which at the time was denied by the Algerian authorities. On 29 August, the Algerian government officially announced that Safia together with daughter Ayesha and sons Muhammad and Hannibal, had crossed into Algeria early on 29 August.[32][33] An Algerian Foreign Ministry official said all the people in the convoy were now in Algiers, and that none of them had been named in warrants issued by the International Criminal Court for possible war crimes charges. Mourad Benmehidi, the Algerian permanent representative to the United Nations, later confirmed the details of the statement. The family had arrived at a Sahara desert entry point, in a Mercedes and a bus at 8:45 a.m. local time. The exact number of people in the party was unconfirmed, but there were “many children” and they did not include Colonel Gaddafi. Resultantly the group was allowed in on humanitarian grounds, and the Algerian government had since informed the head of the Libyan National Transitional Council, who had made no official request for their return.[34]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buraq_Air
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2011 Libyan civil war
Buraq air was grounded during the Libyan civil war of 2011. As of 25 August, 2011, at least 2 737-800s were still visible on the tarmac of Tripoli International Airport. No Buraq Air planes have been reported damaged or destroyed.
http://www.cfr.org/international-criminal-courts-and-tribunals/accountability-vs-impunity-role-international-criminal-court/p6696
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January 16, 2004
Council on Foreign Relations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safia_Farkash
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1) Business and other interests
Farkash kept a low profile during the initial period of her marriage to Gaddafi. However, after the release on license of Lockerbie bomber Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi in 2009, she took a more public profile. She organised a party covered by the local media to celebrate the anniversary of the 1969 revolution that brought her husband to power, and in 2010 attended the graduation of female police students.[1]
In 2008, Farkash was elected vice president to the African First Ladies Organization in a meeting of African Union leaders in Sharm al-Sheikh, even though she was not present at the meeting, and has never taken part in activities related to it.[1]
Farkash owns airline Buraq Air, headquartered at Mittiga International Airport. Operated with the approval of her husband, even though it is a rival of the Libyan national carrier, it monopolizes the transfer of Libyan Hajj pilgrims to Mecca.[1]
It is estimated that Farkash’s has an independent wealth of US$30Bn, which includes 20 tons of gold.[1]
2) 2011 Libyan civil war
Main article: 2011 Libyan civil war
Safia stayed with her husband and family through the 2011 Libyan civil war, at their home in Tripoli. After a first round of United Nations sanctions froze the overseas assets of Libya and those personally held by Gaddafi, the governments of France and the United Kingdom enabled a second round of sanctions, which froze an estimated £18Bn of state and personal assets control by Farkash.[30] In May 2011, she gave her first press interview to CNN reporter Nima Elbagir, via mobile telephone.[31]As the Battle for Tripoli reached a climax in mid-August, the family were forced to abandon their fortified compound. On 27 August, it was reported by the Egyptian news agency Mena that Libyan rebel fighters had seen six armoured Mercedes-Benz sedans, possibly carrying top Gaddafi regime figures, cross the border at the south-western Libyan town of Ghadames towards Algeria,[32] which at the time was denied by the Algerian authorities. On 29 August, the Algerian government officially announced that Safia together with daughter Ayesha and sons Muhammad and Hannibal, had crossed into Algeria early on 29 August.[32][33] An Algerian Foreign Ministry official said all the people in the convoy were now in Algiers, and that none of them had been named in warrants issued by the International Criminal Court for possible war crimes charges. Mourad Benmehidi, the Algerian permanent representative to the United Nations, later confirmed the details of the statement. The family had arrived at a Sahara desert entry point, in a Mercedes and a bus at 8:45 a.m. local time. The exact number of people in the party was unconfirmed, but there were “many children” and they did not include Colonel Gaddafi. Resultantly the group was allowed in on humanitarian grounds, and the Algerian government had since informed the head of the Libyan National Transitional Council, who had made no official request for their return.[34]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buraq_Air
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2011 Libyan civil war
Buraq air was grounded during the Libyan civil war of 2011. As of 25 August, 2011, at least 2 737-800s were still visible on the tarmac of Tripoli International Airport. No Buraq Air planes have been reported damaged or destroyed.
http://www.cfr.org/international-criminal-courts-and-tribunals/accountability-vs-impunity-role-international-criminal-court/p6696
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Accountability vs. Impunity: The Role of the International Criminal Court
| Speaker: | Philippe Kirsch, President, International Criminal Court |
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| Presider: | Fred Hiatt, Editorial Page Editor, The Washington Post |
January 16, 2004
Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations
Washington, D.C.
FRED HIATT: It’s a great pleasure to have Judge Philippe Kirsch here. As you know, he was elected or chosen president of the International Criminal Court last March after a long career as a diplomat and in international law, including chairing the Rome conference that led to the creation of the court.Washington, D.C.
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