Moammar Gadhafi possible surrender for trial picture movie
The International Criminal Court is in indirect negotiations with a son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi about his possible surrender for trial, the chief prosecutor said Friday.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo said talks were being held through intermediaries, whom he did not identify, to assure Seif al-Islam Gadhafi that he would receive a fair trial and that he could be helped to find a new country of residence if he were acquitted or after completing a prison sentence.
He said he did not know exactly where Gadhafi is.
SYRIA: Activists say security forces hunted down protesters, killing 30.
Syrian security forces opened fire Friday on protesters and hunted them down in house-to-house raids, killing about 30 people in the deadliest day in weeks in the country's 7-month-old uprising, activists said.
Much of the bloodshed Friday happened after protests had ended and security forces armed with machine guns chased protesters and activists, according to opposition groups monitoring the demonstrations. Authorities disrupted telephone and Internet service, they said.
LIBYA: NATO to end air campaign Monday.
NATO has announced it will end its air campaign over Libya on Monday, following the decision of the U.N. Security Council to lift the no-fly zone and end military action.
TUNISIA: Unrest follows elections.
Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of the moderate Islamist party that won Tunisia's first free elections, called for calm Friday after protests erupted in the town where the country's revolution began.
Authorities called a curfew in the town of Sidi Bouzid, where supporters of a local candidate rioted after he was docked seats for campaigning violations.
EGYPT: Activists accuse prison guards of torture.
Egyptian rights activists on Friday accused guards at a Cairo prison of killing an inmate by forcing water into his body with hoses, in a case they said shows the continued use of torture by security forces despite the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.