Tripoli, 15 January 2013:
The Qaddafi regime’s last prime minister, Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi, was again in court yesterday, Monday, facing charges relating to the deaths of a number of Libyans as well as to corruption and ordering mass rape in Zuara during the revolution.
His last appearance was on 10 December, when the case was adjourned to allow defence witnesses to be gathered.
In court with Mahmoudi were two co-accused, Mabrouk Zahmoul and and Amer Salah Terfas, charged with transferring funds to acquire logistic support for the regime and, with the former premier, also accused on planning to kill people.
The judge heard witnesses for Zahmoul at the request of the defense lawyers and the Public Prosecutor, in respect of the accused’s involvement in supplying Qaddafi’s brigades with fuel, making financial transfers and the formation of armed brigades hostile to the 17 February Revolution.
The judge decided to again adjourn the trial at the request of defence lawyers who wanted further witnesses, believed to be outside the country, to be brought to court.
The hearing was attended by the lawyers for the defendants, a number of relatives and representatives of human rights organisations. [/restrict]
