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NCHR recommends ICC to prosecute Libya’s ex-Mufti

The National Commission for Human Rights in Libya recommended on Friday the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute Libya’s former grand mufti, Sheikh Al-Sadiq Al-Ghariani, for allegedly inciting violations of international human rights inside the country.

Al-Ghariani, who has been blacklisted as terrorist, has called through a TV show the citizens in the southern region to combat the Libyan National Army (LNA).

The Commission slammed the call, urging the ICC to prosecute the cleric for “inciting violence and hatred.”

It said that his remarks were “clear incitement to civil war under religious cover through his call on several cities and regions to take up arms and fight the LNA.”

Since mid-January the LNA has been conducting a military operation in the south aimed at rooting out militants and foreign fighters. It already controls now most of the important oil terminals in the country’s east and south regions.

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