On 18 January 2025, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "the Court"), by majority, issued a warrant of arrest for Mr Osama Elmasry Njeem, also known as Osama Almasri Njeem, in the Situation in Libya. Mr Osama Elmasry Njeem, who is alleged to have been in charge of prison facilities in Tripoli, where thousands of persons were detained for prolonged periods, is ...

Current focus: Alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in the context of the situation in Libya since 15 February 2011. Current regional focus: Throughout Libya in, inter alia, Tripoli, Benghazi, and Misrata. Libya is not a State Party to the Rome Statute.

1 day ago · The decision to release Osama Elmasry Njeem and fly him back to Libya immediately drew widespread outrage in Italy and beyond.

3 days ago · The investigation comes after Italian authorities freed a Libyan national wanted by the ICC.

Jan 21, 2025 · ROME (AP) — Italian police arrested a Libyan warlord on a warrant from the International Criminal Court, but an Italian tribunal refused to approve the arrest and he was instead sent back to Libya, Italy’s state-run RAI television reported. Ossama Anjiem, also known as Ossama al-Masri, heads the Tripoli branch of the Reform and Rehabilitation Institution, a notorious network of detention ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The International Criminal Court has reminded Italy it is obliged to fully cooperate with its prosecutions.

6 days ago · The government attributed the release to procedural reasons. But critics say it is because Italy depends on Libya to stem the flow of migrants from Africa.

May 14, 2024 · The Office stresses that after 2025, Libya will remain under a duty to cooperate with the Court as mandated in Resolution 1970 (2011) as the Office’s work in relation to arrest strategy, fugitive tracking, preservation prosecutions and trials at the ICC continues after this date.

May 11, 2023 · New technology and strategies are helping to deliver justice to victims of grave violations of human rights in Libya, including fresh arrest warrants, but “we can do better”, the chief prosecutor...

May 14, 2024 · The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced at the UN Security Council on Tuesday that the investigative stage of the legal proceedings into alleged war crimes in Libya is...