The Importance of a Fair Trial for Seif Quaddafi

Seif Quaddafi, the surviving son of Libyan dictator Muammar Quaddafi, has a lot to say of global interest – if he doesn’t “accidentally” die while in custody of a revolutionary militia in Zintan. This week the US lobbied for his trial to take place in Libya, instead of the Hague, on the controversial grounds that the new Libya has achieved “minimum standards” of justice. Now the Libyan ruling circle is detaining a lawyer for Seif Quaddafi, Melinda Taylor, sent from the Hague to interview him. The Hague indicted Seif Quaddafi last fall, before the fall of his father’s regime.