Showing posts with label ليبيا. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ليبيا. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
LE TEMPS: Les deux hommes d’affaires suisses retenus à Tripoli ont été condamnés mardi à 16 mois de prison ferme et à une amende de 2000 dinars libyens chacun (environ 1650 francs), a annoncé un responsable libyen sous couvert d’anonymat
«Les deux ressortissants suisses ont écopé de 16 mois de prison ferme et de 2.000 dinars d’amende chacun», a déclaré ce responsable proche du dossier. >>> AFP | Mardi 01 Décembre 2009
NZZ ONLINE: Die zwei Schweizer, die seit Juli 2008 in Libyen festgehalten werden, sind zu 16 Monaten Gefängnis wegen Visavergehen verurteilt worden. Das berichtete die Nachrichtenagentur AFP unter Berufung auf einen libyschen Verantwortlichen, der nicht namentlich genannt werden wollte.
Die beiden Geschäftsleute seien zusätzlich zu einer Strafe von rund 2000 libyschen Dinar (umgerechnet rund 1600 Franken) verurteilt worden, hiess es weiter. Beim Eidgenössischen Departement für auswärtige Angelegenheiten (EDA) war dazu zunächst keine Stellungnahme erhältlich. >>> sda | Dienstag, 01. Dezember 2009
TAGES ANZEIGER: Schweizer Geiseln verurteilt: «Datum bewusst gewählt» : Die zwei Schweizer, die in Libyen festgehalten werden, sind zu 16 Monaten Gefängnis verurteilt worden. Für den Genfer Wissenschafter Hasni Abidi ist der Zusammenhang mit dem Minarett-Verbot offensichtlich. >>> sam/sda | Dienstag, 01. Dezember 2009
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
THE GUARDIAN: Ministers accused of not holding Tripoli to account / Calls for payouts over Ulster terrorism rejected
Britain faced fresh pressure over Libya yesterday when the government was accused of failing to challenge Tripoli over the forcing down of a British aircraft in 1971 and the son of the Libyan leader rejected paying compensation to victims of IRA terrorism.
As No 10 struggled to present a united front on Libya – with the schools secretary, Ed Balls, declaring that "none of us wanted" to see the release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing – ministers were criticised for failing to act on pleas to investigate an earlier plane incident.
Ministers have faced calls since 2004, the year the then prime minister, Tony Blair, met the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, outside Tripoli, to challenge Libya over the forcing down of a BOAC VC10 over Benghazi in July 1971.
The plane was flying from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum to London carrying 105 people, including Colonel Babakr al-Nur, the leader of a failed coup, and his assistant, Major Farouk Hamadalla. Both men were sent back to Sudan, where they were executed.
Hamadalla's daughter, Amani, has tried to raise the matter with the Foreign Office (FCO), but she has been met with "obfuscation after obfuscation", according to her MP, the Liberal Democrat Sarah Teather.
In an echo of the government's initial refusal to put pressure on Tripoli to pay compensation to victims of IRA terrorism, the Foreign Office brushed off Hamadalla in 2004.
Lady Symons, an FCO minister, told her to contact the Libyans herself. "It is impossible for us to raise every case, but, if a suitable opportunity presents itself, we are sometimes able to discuss individuals," Symons wrote. When Teather protested, the FCO raised the case with the Libyans and issued Tripoli with a formal "note verbale" in 2005 recording this. >>> Nicholas Watt and Henry McDonald | Monday, September 07, 2009
Monday, September 07, 2009
THE TELEGRAPH: Gordon Brown is facing increasing pressure over compensation for IRA victims after an about-turn to offer support for the claims against Libya was undermined by Saif Gaddafi, its leader's son.
Mr Brown's changes of political position have left him in an embarrassing position with little room to manoeuvre.
Initially, he isolated himself by angering the families of victims of the IRA, whose loved ones were killed with Semtex supplied by the African nation, by failing to personally intervene on their behalf for payouts from Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
In a letter to a lawyer representing IRA victims, he argued that it was “inappropriate” for him to lobby Col Gaddafi, partly because trade and Libya’s co-operation in the battle against extremism might be affected.
The reaction was so strong that, by Sunday night, the Prime Minister was forced into an about-turn in which he tried to defuse the row by offering "dedicated Foreign Office support” to the victims' families.
However, the Libyan authorities swiftly poured cold water on the chances the compensation bid.
Speaking in a television interview on Monday morning, Saif Gaddafi said the first response to any claim for a payout would be: "No."
He added that any attempt would be forced through a legal process.
"Anyone can knock on our door. You go to the court. They have their lawyers. We have our lawyers," he said.
Mr Brown's mishandling of the issue now risks jeopardising the relations with Libya, the very thing which the Government has tried so hard to improve. >>> Simon Johnson and Andrew Porter | Monday, September 07, 2009
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