Overview
- Prosecutors on Tuesday opened three days of confirmation hearings at the ICC for Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri on 17 suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- They said he oversaw the women’s wing at Tripoli’s Mitiga prison for the Special Deterrence Force and personally tortured, raped, and killed detainees.
- Witnesses described him shooting prisoners in the legs, hanging them with hands bound, and beating them with a shovel, with sexual violence used as punishment.
- Prosecutors said many detainees died at Mitiga from torture, untreated wounds, starvation, or being left outside in winter cold.
- German police arrested him in July 2025 and sent him to the Netherlands in December, and a separate Italy arrest and release of another suspect highlighted cooperation hurdles in the Libya probe.