Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi refutes allegations of Libyan torture in TV interview | Libya Herald

By George Grant and Ashraf Abdul Wahab.

Tripoli, 1 July:

Mahmoudi refuted allegations that he has been mistreated since being returned to Libyan custody

Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi has claimed he is “in good health” and said that reports he has been mistreated in custody since his return to Libya last Sunday are “a lie”.

Qaddafi’s last prime minister made the remarks during a television interview with the Tunisian television station Al-Zitouna on Friday evening. The interview itself has been published on the station’s official Facebook page and can be viewed here.

Last Wednesday, allegations were made by Mahmoudi’s French lawyer, Marcel Ceccaldi, in the Guardian newspaper that his client had been badly beaten upon his return to Tripoli from Tunisia, where he had been held since September having fled there the previous month.

“People said to me he has broken ribs, he has perforated lung, and he fell into a coma,” Ceccaldi said. The lawyer, who was in Paris when he made the allegations, said he had been informed of Mahmoudi’s condition by hospital workers in Tripoli.

Three days earlier, Mahmoudi’s lawyer in Tunisia, Bashir Al-Said, had gone further still, claiming he may be dead. Al-Said also alleged Mahmoudi had been beaten on the back of the head and that he had been taken into intensive care.

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