Sunday 30 March 2008

Arab Ministerial Council Demands Release of Documents in the Libyan Citizen Case

The following is from Mathaba News Network on 29 March:

"The Council of Arab Foreign Ministers has demanded that all documents requested by the defence team in the trial of the Libyan political hostage Abd al Basset al Megrahi to be released to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. [Note by RB: The documents in question were, in fact, released to the SCCRC, which regarded them as of such importance that their non-disclosure at the trial may have given rise to a miscarriage of justice. It is disclosure of the documents to Megrahi's legal team and to the court for the purpose of the appeal that is currently at issue.]

The failure to release the documents will lead to the miscarriage of justice and an impediment to his vindication, the Council said in a meeting in Damascus today.

The Council entrusted the Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa with the follow up of this decision and to report back to the next Arab summit.

It considered the Libyan citizen Abd al Basset al Megrahi a hostage by all international norms and laws.

The Council endorsed a decision to tackle the damage resulting from the Lockerbie case.

It reconfirmed the legitimate right of Libya to reparations for the human and material losses incurred by the unjust sanctions that had been imposed on it."

See http://mathaba.net/news/?x=587142

The English language website of the Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation has a brief report of the same story, which can be read here.

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