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“While we respect the ICC and its judges we will appeal to the International Criminal Court to reverse its decision regarding the prosecution of Seif Gaddafi within five days," Libya's Minister of Justice Salah Al-Marghani told reporters at a joint press conference with the Prime Minister last Sunday.
Al-Marghani was commenting on the rejection by the ICC's pre-trial chamber Libya's request to try Seif inside the country.
Libya has argued that since it is already investigating the accused for crimes against humanity with a view to prosecuting him, the ICC had no jurisdiction act otherwise because ICC only intervenes where local legal systems are not up to the job.
"The chamber concluded that it has not been sufficiently demonstrated that [Libya's] domestic investigation [covers] the same case that is before the court," the ICC said in a summary of the decision.
Seif Gaddafi is being held in the city of Zintan, 180 kms southwest of Tripoli.
Al-Marghani said that it would be imperative that Libya put on trial those individuals who had committed murder, incited murder, committed rape, illegally arrested people and tortured them.
"It is important and essential and the people's will that the trial be held in Libya and we hope the people's will is respected," stressed the Minister of Justice.
The Libyan minister said international organizations has understood the Libyan position and argument and his ministry is to provide evidence that it could very well hold fair trials according to international standards and it is also willing to provide any guaranteed in this regard.
He also pointed at differences descriptions of criminal acts between the Libyan law and the ICC but they are similar in substance.
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