Libya asks Tunisia to extradite former PM - lawyer, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi

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TUNIS | Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:55pm IST

(Reuters) - Tunisian prosecutors have received a request from the new Libyan authorities to extradite Muammar Gaddafi's former prime minister, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, and are therefore keeping him in jail, Mahmoudi's lawyer said on Thursday.

"The prosecutor-general has decided to keep Mahmoudi in prison after receiving a request to extradite him to Libya," his lawyer, Mabrouk Korchid, told Reuters.

A Tunisian court sentenced Mahmoudi to six months in jail for entering the country illegally, but an appeal court later overturned this and ordered his release.

(Reporting By Tarek Amara; Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Peter Graff)