Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi (in Arab: عبدالباسطمحمدعليالمقرحي) (and not المقراحي as one usually finds it in the mediae) (born on April 1st, 1952) are an old agent Libyen, chief of safety for the airline company Libyan Arab Airlines, and director of the Center of the Strategic studies of Tripoli. January 31st, 2001 he was convinced, by a Scottish panel of judges sitting in a special court of Camp Zeist with the Netherlands, murder of 270 people for his participation in the attack of the Pan Am Flight 103 on Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21st, 1988. Megrahi was condemned to the Emprisonnement with life and purges its sorrow in the prison of Greenock, close to Glasgow. It always supported its innocence and fact call. Its co-defendant, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah was discharged.

Background

In November 1991, Megrahi and Fhimah were accused by the Attorney General étasunien and the Scottish Lawyer-Lord for the attack of the flight Pan Am Flight 103. Libya refused the extradition of the two co-defendants, but kept them in a prison to Tripoli.

Seven years after the attack of 1988, as fugitive of the justice of the United States, on March 23rd, 1995 him and Fhimah were both in the lists of the personalities most sought by the FBI, which promised a reward of 4 million dollars of the United States for their capture, the trade unions of airline pilots and Air transport, and the State Department of the United States, and: 50000 American dollars of FBI, for information leading to their arrest. Negotiations with Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi and the imposition of the Economic sanctions of the the United Nations against Libya led the two marked ones to a lawsuit in a neutral country. Consequently, eleven years after the attack, Megrahi and Fhimah were stopped with Camp Zeist on April 5th, 1999.

Convicted

Megrahi' S appeal against his conviction At the Side Am Flight 103 bombing trial in January 2001 was refused one March 14, 2002 by has off panel five Scottish Judges At Camp Zeist, Netherlands. According to has carryforward by the BBC, Dr. Hans Köchler, one off a observers At the trial, expressed serious doubts butt the fairness off the proceedings and spoke off has " spectacular miscarriage off justice".

One November 24, 2003 Megrahi appeared At the High Court in Glasgow, in face off the three Judges who originally sentenced him At Camp Zeist, to learn that He would cuts to serf At least 27 years in jail – Back-date D to April 1999 when He was extradited from Libya – before He could Be considered for Word. This runs hearing was the result off the incorporation into Scots law off the European Convention off Human Rights in 2001, nine months after Megrahi' S sentence was imposed, which required him to Be told the extent the " off; punishment part" off his life term. One May 31, 2004 He was granted leave to appeal against his 27-year sentence. The appeal against sentence was scheduled to Be heard in Edinburgh by has off panel five Judges one July 11, 2006. However, the Scottish Runs off Criminal Appeal decided to postpone the July hearing to allow consideration off whether the appeal against sentence ought to Be heard At Camp Zeist rather than in Edinburgh.

Revision

The 23 september 2003 lawyers working for Megrahi called upon the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) for the revision of the judgment (at the same time sentence and conviction ), argant that there had been a Miscarriage off justice. The majority of the commentators predicted that the SCCRC will off transfer the Megrahi business to the High Court Justiciary for a fresh appeal against conviction . The November 2006, it was known as that Megrahi had dropped its request for a new call to Camp Zeist. In an interview with The Scotsman newspaper of the January 31st 2006, the reprocessed Scottish judge Lord MacLean – one off the three who convicted Megrahi in 2001 – indica to believe that the SCCRC would return the business for a forthcoming call against the conviction : " They can' T Be working for two years without producing something with which to go to the court." MacLean added that no new call could indicate that the flexibility of the Scottish law, rather than a weakness: " It might even Be the strength off the system – it is able off looking At itself subsequently and determining has ground for appeal." In January 2007, the SCCRC announça which it would publish its decision on the Megrahi business at the end of the month of June 2007.

The June 9th 2007 of the rumors of a possible exchange of prisoners to which Megrahi belongwould belong were strenuously contradicted by the Prime Minister for the time, Tony Blair. The June 17th 2007 the Observer confirmed the imminence of the decision of SCCRC At paid:

" Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi never wavered in his denial off causing the Lockerbie disaster: now legal Scottish experts say they believe him."

The June 28th 2007 the SCCRC announca its decision to return the business to Short High. The Scottish legal commission, on June 28th, thus authorized it to appeal, for the second time. This decision would have weighed in the negotiation of the release of the Bulgarian nurses, and would have intervened following a voyage to Tripoli of Tony Blair. According to the son of colonel Kadhafi Libya and RU will be able “to have an agreement of extradition soon”, the point being discussed in July in London.

Family

He is married in Aisha, and has a child, Khaleb, which followed the lawsuit; and a sister, Ghada. According to newspapers published during the lawsuit, it would have been born with Tripoli, and would have followed its education to the the United States and the the United Kingdom.

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