Qaddafi’s Ex-Prime Minister Ordered Extradited to Libya

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Source: NY Times

A Tunisian appeals court on Tuesday approved the extradition of Libya’s former prime minister, making him the first escaped member of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s felled government to be ordered returned home into Libyan custody since the revolution that officially ended last month.

The former prime minister, Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, was arrested by the Tunisian border police on Sept. 22 and sentenced to six months in a Tunisian prison for entering the country illegally. The sentence was overturned, but the Tunisian authorities held him pending the outcome of an extradition request by Libya’s post-Qaddafi government.

Despite a plea for a postponement by Mr. Mahmoudi’s defense lawyers, the appeals court ordered the extradition, according to TAP, the official Tunisia news agency.

It did not specify precisely when Mr. Mahmoudi would be returned to Libya.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/world/africa/tunisia-orders-former-top-qaddafi-aide-extradited.html