Aisha Gaddafi The Israeli lawyer, Nick Kaufman, who was hired by Aisha Gaddafi to defense her brothers Al-Saadi and Saif Al-Islam before the international criminal court ICC said Aisha have suffered emotional distress since she saw her father's killing pictures. Despite she has a newborn baby girl, he added, she is furious at those responsible for the killing of her father and her brother Mutassim, and wants the International Criminal Court to immediately open an inquiry into the circumstances of the crime.
Kaufman stressed that she had approached him because he was a former ICC prosecutor who had since successfully challenged the international court. "It's nothing to do with the fact that I'm Israeli," he added.
Kaufman confirmed in an interview with the Israeli newspaper ‘Yediot Aharonot’ that he tried to contact the Libyan authorities, but they refused to cooperate and ignored his call.
The Israeli lawyer who was a former senior prosecutor at the ICC and now an international lawyer based in Jerusalem said that Gaddafi and his son Mutassim, were murdered in the most horrific fashion with their bodies thereafter displayed and grotesquely abused. The images of this savagery were broadcast throughout the world causing Aisha (my client) severe emotional distress.
“She hired me to petition the international criminal court to investigate the circumstances of the death of her father, and to defense for her brothers Al-Saadi and Saif Al-Islam, after the ICC charged them for crimes against humanity” Kaufman added.
According to the Israeli newspaper, Gaddafi’s daughter reached Kaufman in October after she knew he was a former ICC prosecutor; "It's nothing to do with the fact that I'm Israeli," he said. He added that Aisha knows a lot about Israel and she is so smart.
Kaufman refused to reveal the way he contacts Aisha, who live in Algeria with her mother and two brothers since the fall of Tripoli in August, saying “I cannot speak about the way of communication with my client.”
Kaufman said he held talks with Saadi, and seeks for not extraditing him to the ICC in Hague. He also filed a request to the Interpol to halt his arrest warrant.
Moreover, Kaufman was hired to defense of Saif Al-Islam, who captured last month and is being held in Libya, after the ICC issued arrest warrants in June for crimes against humanity.
Kaufman said that the Libyan authorities refused to cooperate with him and ignored his calls to talk with Saif Al-Islam.