Sabha appeals court was unable to proceed with a session for looking into Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi’s appeal to the decision of being disqualified from presidential elections list of candidates after a group of gunmen loyal to Khalifa Haftar stormed the court and threatened the judges and staffers on Thursday.
A source from inside Sabha courthouse said a force from Tariq bin Ziyad Brigade under Haftar sons’ command carried the attack and prevented Saif Gaddafi’s appeal process to get him out of presidential race.
Gaddafi’s lawyer, Khalid Al-Zaydi, filed Thursday morning an appeal to High National Elections Commission’s decision to disqualify his client from preliminary list of presidential candidates, saying in a video statement on social media that the Sabha court set 16.00 on Thursday as the time for appeal deliberation but they were surprised to see Haftar’s gunmen attacking the court and kicking out judges and staggers to hamper electoral process.
The Libyan Justice Ministry denounced in a statement the assault by an outlaw group on the appeals court in Sabha, saying the gunmen used arms against the staffers and judges and then kicked them out.
