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Libyan citizens from the city Zuwara accused Baghdadi Mahmoudi, former Libyan Prime Minister, for having issued direct orders to Libyan security and military forces to rape women in different cities, to terrorize families opposed to Gaddafi, and to assassinate people opposing the regime.
A Tunisian lawyer representing the Libyan citizens filed a complaint to the prosecutor of Tunis’ Court of First Instance to authorize its specialized security services to sue the accused for inciting mass murder and rape.
Sami Bousarsar, the lawyer at the Court of Cassation, who undertook the complaint for his Libyan plaintiffs, said that it is not clear, yet, whether Tunisian courts are sufficiently specialized for dealing with the case. He specified that the complaint will push the Tunisian government to either put Mahmoudi on trial in Tunisia or to hand him over, which would activate the 1961 Bilateral Agreement of Judicial Cooperation for Handing Over Criminals.
Nizar Jabri, General Secretary of the National Lawyers Association, argued that while the handing over of Mahmoudi to Libya would fall under the 1961 Agreement, given the exceptional circumstances in Libya, it would not be appropriate to hand him over to some parties that might take revenge on him.
Source: Al-Maghreb
