Libya: War Crimes
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

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Denis MacShane (Rotherham, Labour)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will urge the National Transitional Council in Libya to hand over Saif al-Islam to the International Criminal Court.

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Alistair Burt (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Afghanistan/South Asia, counter terrorism/proliferation, North America, Middle East and North Africa), Foreign and Commonwealth Office; North East Bedfordshire, Conservative)

The Government strongly support the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the co-operation between the ICC and Libya's Transitional Government regarding arrangements for the prosecution of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi. During his visit to Libya on 22-23 November, the ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said that it was Libya's right to try Saif al-Islam Gaddafi provided that the judicial process meets certain standards. Ocampo said that the current intention was to consider appropriate steps to sequence potential ICC and Libyan action, and the ICC would enter into discussion with the Libyan authorities over the “modalities of the prosecution”. We look forward to the outcome of these discussions.

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