LIBYA: MILITARY TRIAL FOR 30 ACCUSED OF PLOTTING TO OVERTHROW GOVERNMENT.

Record ID: 194993

  • Title: LIBYA: MILITARY TRIAL FOR 30 ACCUSED OF PLOTTING TO OVERTHROW GOVERNMENT.
  • Date: 13th February 1970
  • Summary: COURTROOM: ACCUSED; ARMY JUDGES. Initials AF/VS/PNG/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th February 1970 13:00
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  • Location: TRIPOLI
  • Country: Libya
  • Reuters ID: LVAAKB18715ZCZ4X79NQZWZAPZG0
  • Story Text: In Libya, thirty people -- including two former Cabinet Ministers -- appeared before a special military court on Tuesday (February 10th) on charges of plotting to overthrow the Government.

    The three-man military tribunal set up to try the alleged plotters adjourned the trial until February 21st after a 65-minute hearing.

    The accused, all servicemen, are headed by ex-Defence Minister, Lieutenant Colonel Adam Al-Hawaz and former Interior Minister. Lieutenant Colonel Moussa Ahmed. They are charged with plotting to overthrow the Libyan Revolutionary Government last December.

    In court, Al-Hawaz's defence lawyer said his client was a schizophrenic and asked for him to have a psychiatric examination.

    (Colonel Gaddafi, leader of the military junta which overthrew King Idris in September, 1969, said two months ago that Al-Hawaz tried to kill himself when accused of plotting.)
    The military court sessions are being held in public.
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