The lawyer of Abdullah Al-Senussi, head of the intelligence agency in the Gaddafi regime, Ahmed Nashad, said that his client’s sentencing hearing had been postponed to November 06, telling reporters that this postponement was attributed to the failure to bring Al-Senussi to trial on last Monday. This is the eighth time in a row that the sentencing hearings for Al-Senussi have been postponed due to his failure to appear at the headquarters of the Tripoli Court of Appeal, where his trial is taking place. He is also convicted of being behind the Abu Salim prison massacre that took place in 1996, when more than 1,200 people were killed. Al-Senussi fled Libya after the fall of Gaddafi’s regime, and then he was arrested in 2012 after arriving from Morocco to Mauritania carrying a false passport. A death sentence was issued against Al-Senussi in 2015 in the Abu Salim massacre case, but the court ruled at the end of 2019 to drop charges against all defendants in the case, before the Supreme Court overturned the ruling and put the case back for a retrial.
