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Baghdadi Mahmoudi defence team says it will sue senior Tunisian officials

August 4, 2015 at 2:04 pm

The defence team for former Libyan premier Baghdadi Mahmoudi has said that it will sue senior Tunisian officials at the local and international courts, including former Tunisan Prime Minister Hamed Jebali.

Mabrouk Korchid, one of Mahmoudi’s lawyers, told reporters on Monday in Tunis that “the defence team will file cases with the Tunisian and international courts against those who issued the extradition order against Baghdadi Mahmoudi and those who contributed in the issuance of the order, especially government officials.”

“We believe there were crimes committed against Mahmoudi by Tunisian officials punishable by up to years especially during the Troika government of Prime Minister Hamed Jebali, who signed the extradition order,” Korchid said.

Korchid explained that “the death penalty against Mahmoudi could be carried out within two months according to his family and relatives.”

The Tripoli Court of Appeal on Tuesday sentenced Mahmoudi to death, along with a number of other Gaddafi regime men including Saif Al-Islam, the son of the former Libyan leader, and Abdullah Al-Senussi, the former head of the Libyan intelligence service.

Tunisia’s Ennahda party said in a statement on Friday, that “the Tunisian government’s decision, headed by Hamadi Jebali, late in 2012 to hand over Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi to Libya came in implementation of a Tunis court decision of 2011”.

Mahmoudi fled to Tunisia in August 2011, nearly six months after the revolution in Libya.

Tunisian authorities arrested Mahmoudi on charges of entering the country illegally, then released him in November 2011, but re-arrested him and handed him over to the Libyan government on 24 June, 2012.