The Sabha Court of Appeal is still witnessing a siege by the militias of the “presidential candidate”, the commander of al-Karama, who issued orders to his militias to besiege the Sabha Court and prevent its employees from entering it and practicing their work. The ban on entering the court did not stop at this point, but even reached the point of banning judges who enjoy immunity. All this escalation pursued by Haftar aims at one goal, which is to prevent consideration of the appeal to exclude Saif Gaddafi from the presidential elections.
Saif Gaddafi, who was excluded from the presidential election by the presidential election law, his lawyer Khaled Al-Zaydi is seeking to file an appeal against this removal in the Sabha Court of Appeal, but during Zaidi’s presence in court, Haftar’s militias also attended and expelled him, along with those who were in the court, to prevent this appeal.
In contrast to this conflagration taking place in the judicial campus in Sabha, and in light of the armed siege on it, the reactions of most of the political bodies in the country and those concerned were cold and did not rise above the statements, and condemnations on paper.
On the part of the unity government, its response was with a statement four days ago, denouncing the incident, which it described as heinous, and that it gave instructions to the Ministries of Interior and Justice to intensify protection for all headquarters concerned with the presidential and parliamentary elections, but the Sabha court has not yet seen the light of these instructions. In a similar statement, the Ministry of Justice was present, saying that it had formed a committee to investigate the incident and its circumstances.
As for the Presidential Council, with its members and its head, as the supreme commander of the Libyan army, they did not issue any reaction regarding the incident, as if the city of Sabha and its court did not fall within the scope of their control and within the country’s borders.
By going to the two councils whose disagreement covered most of the files in the country, the two agreed to be silent regarding the incident.
During the incident, some rumors were issued that all the reports that declared the siege of the Sabha court were false, the Sabha Security Directorate issued a statement confirming that the Sabha court was under siege and described it as “suffocating” by the two battalions of Tariq bin Ziyad and 115 – which are affiliated with the civil colonel Saddam Haftar – and that they prevent Citizens, employees and judges from the right to enter the court and practice their work.
Between this and that, a military siege of the court, and the stagnation of actions by the responsible authorities, citizens who supported Saif Gaddafi came out before the court, demonstrating the matter, expressing their dissatisfaction with this act, which Saddam’s two brigades tried to suppress with bullets and fire.
The question now remains, what is the secret behind this silence practiced by most political bodies, and will the electoral process proceed without obstruction or disruption?
