The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday unsealed arrest warrants against six members of a Libyan militia group charged with war crimes.
In 2023, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said arrest warrants had been issued by court judges for war crimes in Libya since 2011, but these warrants were under seal, so it was not clear who was targeted or what the specific charges were.
The warrants released on Friday made it clear six individuals, all Libyan nationals, had been charged with war crimes including murder, torture, cruel treatment, and sexual violence, and some also with rape.
Libya has known little peace since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising and the oil-producing country split in 2014 between warring eastern and western factions. Major fighting ended in 2020 but there has been little progress toward a political settlement and armed factions still dominate on the ground.
According to the ICC the suspects in the six arrest warrants were all members of the Kaniyat militia that was allied to the eastern Libyan National Army and helped it mount a failed 14-month assault on the capital Tripoli in the west.
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