Gaddafi's son and heir, Saif al-Islam, was found and arrested in Libya on Saturday (see Al-Jazeera). He's being held in the city of Zintan. Abdullah al-Senussi, Gaddafi's intelligence chief who was responsible for the torture of many people during his regime, was also found and arrested this weekend (see Al-Jazeera again). The significance of these two arrests is huge, especially given the world's reactions to the handling of Gaddafi's death last month.
The trial: ICC or Libyan?
Obviously the first question people are asking is whether the trials of these two men will be handled by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued warrants for their arrests for crimes against humanity over the summer, or if they will go through Libyan courts. The problem is that at the moment Libya is in a transitional phase without laws or courts with which to hold a trial. However, the fact that these men have been arrested and detained and not killed on the spot like Gaddafi is a good sign for those concerned about order in the country.
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