The International Criminal Court (ICC) has no case against Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, says Themba Langa, the lawyer leading the legal team from South Africa that is representing Gaddafi at The Hague. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Gaddafi on Monday. He is wanted for crimes against humanity in connection with the deaths of Libyan protesters, along with his son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and military intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, notes a report on the Mail & Guardian Online site. ‘We are satisfied that the ICC has no case, because it has been instructed what to do by the United Nations Security Council,’ Langa is quoted as saying. ‘Based on international law, we’ll succeed. The Security Council has compromised the integrity of the ICC, when it prescribed to the ICC who it should and shouldn’t prosecute. The mandate of the UNSC is to refer cases to the ICC. But here they exceeded their mandate… The ICC should have been allowed to act impartially and independently.’ Langa said that the team’s next step depends on what emerges at the African Union summit, that began this week in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea.
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