Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court told judges on Tuesday that the head of a Libyan detention facility was known as the “Angel of Death,” and that he murdered and raped prisoners, sometimes in front of their children.
The court in The Hague is holding pretrial hearings for its first ever suspect from the North African country, a man accused of 17 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes at the infamous Mitiga prison in Tripoli between 2015 and 2020, a period following the death of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
