Tunisia -Â Nabil Zaghdoud
Marzouki: Al-Mahmoudi Extradited if Fair Trail Possible
Tunisia - Nabil Zaghdoud
Tunisian president, Moncef Marzouki, has asked the Libyan authorities to provide "the basis of a fair trial" to hand over Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi, the last prime minister for Muammar
Gaddafi’s regime.
" Libyan people have the right to be handed Al-Mahmoudi, the way Tunisians want Ben Ali to be Extradited from the KSA," Marzouqi Said in a press conference, held on the sidelines of his visit to Tripoli, that started Monday.
"Tunisia wants to be one hundred per cent sure that there is a fair trial, and that there's an independent judiciary." he stated that he is "confident of achieving this equation, which means that Tunisia gets guarantees of a fair and impartial trial in Tripoli, to ensure the rights of Libyans in Extraditing Al-Mahmoudi" who was arrested last September. Tunisian courts have decided that he should be handed over to the new Libyan authorities, despite calls against that on the grounds that al-Mahmoudi "will not receive a fair trial, especially as the Libyan new government still has not succeed in establishing a judicial system for the post-Gaddafi era.”
Head of the Libyan government, Abdurrahim al-Keib, has asked the Tunisian government, Monday, to help finding legal solutions to the large number of Gaddafi state people, now living in Tunisia. He considers their presence there as athreat to Libyan security.
According to information obtained by Arabs today, More than 589 Libyan families (about 2200 people) have issued their demands to Tunisian authorities for political asylum. They are unwilling to return to Libya, because they "fear for their lives."
The Tunisian President announced the issuance of a general amnesty for the Libyan prisoners in Tunisia for minor misdemeanors, on January 14.
On the other hand, Tunisian President declared that his next visit would be "to Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania to revive the project Maghreb", which he considers "a historic opportunity for the advancement of the people of this region."
He added that his visit to "Libya is a way of achieving a phase of reconciliation based on mutual positive communication in many fields, especially economy, politics, social and security”
Marzouki ensured that "this visit will be followed by a visit to the Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali, in the upcoming days in order to further strengthen the Tunisian-Libyan relations and activate the agreements previously concluded” which was, as he puts it, “subjected to the whim of the rulers of the two countries."
Marzouki called the Tunisian and Libyan peoples "to be patient," saying, "No one can as us to be responsible for the results of fifty years of corruption. The upcoming period requires some wisdom."