International court demands answers after Italy released Osama Elmasry Njeem, who is accused of abusing detainees.

Rome's decision to release Osama Almasri Najim drew condemnation from Italian opposition parties, NGOs and the ICC.

The justice minister said the court had noted discrepancies concerning dates within the arrest warrant, with the same crimes listed as occurring in February 2011 and in other parts in February 2015.

Italy's justice minister has strongly defended the government's decision to free and repatriate a Libyan warlord wanted by ...

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, left, and Justice Minister Carlo Nordio attend a debate in the Italian lower ...

Meloni described the probe as 'clearly a deliberate act' and that the prosecutor who passed on the complaint to the court was ...

Osama Elmasry Njeem is a brigadier general in Libya's Judicial Police ... The court informed Italian authorities and Njeem ...

Najim was arrested last Sunday in Turin under a warrant from the International Criminal Court on charges of committing crimes against humanity, including rape and murder, in addition to using detained ...

Video loaded on social media showed Njeem lifted onto the shoulders of supporters after an Italian government aircraft flew him directly from Turin to Mitiga airport, in Tripoli, on Tuesday night.

The Judicial Police in Libya posted a message on its Facebook ... enabling him to be picked up in Turin on Sunday. He was freed due to a legal technicality because the police who arrested him ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Justice Minister Carlo Nordio addresses the Senate during the report on the justice administration, in Rome ...

ROME (AP) — Human rights groups voiced outrage Wednesday after Italy released a Libyan warlord on a technicality, after he was arrested on a warrant from the International Criminal Court ...