The Attorney General’s Office reported today that Tripoli Criminal Court convicted seven involved in ”an organisation engaged in activities that threatened the safety of the state and the national economy”.
The seven defendants in an armed group were accused of seeking to replace the form of government and the country’s basic systems, preventing public authorities from carrying out their duties, sabotaging government headquarters, arbitrarily killing government workers, and forcing oil field workers to shut down production sites for a period of time (other losses related to their armed attacks on ports and destroying oil reservoirs).
These actions resulted in losses to the Libyan state amounting to US$ 52,218, 413.
Tripoli Criminal Court sentenced the first (A. S. J.), second (S. A. N.), third (A. S. Q.), fourth (A. H.), the fifth defendant (J. H.) and the sixth defendant (M.J.) to 18 years in prison.
The seventh convict (S.M.) was sentenced to 15 years in prison. All the convicts were also permanently deprived of their civil rights.
While the Attorney General’s Office did not name the convicts, giving only the first letters of their names, Libyan Arabic language media reports that those convicted included: the fugitive Ibrahim Jadhran (18 years’ imprisonment), leaders of terrorist organizations (Al-Qaeda) who participated in attacking and destroying oil fields, Ibrahim Jadhran’s brother Osama and terrorist leader Saadi Noufli, the right-hand man of Algerian Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
Other convicts in the organization are believed to include Jamal Abdelhamid Bouharq, his brother Ayman, and Ahmed Suleiman al-Qarqai, Marei al-Jubail, and the former mayor of Ajdabiya Salem Musa al-Maghribi (15 years imprisonment).
