Libya denies Gaddafi son trial imminent

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Libya has denied that slain dictator Moamer Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam faces imminent trial on charges of crimes against humanity, The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) said Monday. Seif has been charged with alleged crimes committed while trying to put down last year’s bloody revolt that toppled his father after over 40 years in power, but the ICC wants him to be tried in The Netherlands. In an interim report to the ICC on trial progress, Libya’s post-Gaddafi administration dismissed claims from both the Libyan prosecution and the defence that Seif would go on trial this month in former rebel bastion Zintan. 

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