Direct flights between Rome and Tripoli resumed on Sunday after a 10-year hiatus, with Italy’s foreign ministry citing a “concerted effort” to strengthen ties with its former colony Libya.
ROME (AP) — Human rights groups voiced outrage Wednesday after Italy released a Libyan warlord on a technicality, after he was arrested on a warrant from the International Criminal Court accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
A senior member of Libya's judicial police has been given a hero's welcome back home after Italy unexpectedly released him from jail just two days after arresting him on a warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Italian media reports and a Libyan official say police in Turin have arrested a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.
Direct flights between Rome and Tripoli resumed on Sunday after a 10-year hiatus, with Italy's foreign ministry citing a "concerted effort" to strengthen ties with its former colony Libya.
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Italy's interior minister said on Thursday a Libyan man detained under an international war crimes arrest warrant and then unexpectedly released had been swiftly repatriated because of his "social dangerousness".
Opposition parties and NGOs are demanding the Italian government explain why the director of Libya's notorious Mitiga prison was not jailed.
Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her government are under fire due to the release of a Libyan warlord on a technicality, after he was arrested on a warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Italy has released the head of Libya's judicial police who directs Tripoli's Mitiga detention centre, a government source told AFP on Tuesday, just days after he was arrested on an international arrest warrant.