Mustafa Abdul Jalil

He was born on 6 November 1952 in the eastern city of Beida. He graduated in 1975 from the department of Shari'a and law in the Arabic Language and Islamic Studies faculty of the University of Libya, began as an assistant to the secretary of the public prosecutor in Beida, and was appointed a judge in 1978. He became known as a judge who ruled consistently against the regime. ^{1 2}

In January 2007 he became Gaddafi's minister of justice (secretary of the General People's Committee of Justice). Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International recorded his public criticism of the security agencies for detaining prisoners who had served their sentences or been acquitted, and his inability to order investigations into abuses by officers who enjoyed immunity. In January 2010 he attempted to resign on national television over the failure to release political prisoners; the resignation was rejected. On 21 February 2011, sent to Benghazi during the uprising, he resigned in protest at the excessive use of violence against protesters — the first senior official to do so. A bounty of 500,000 Libyan dinars was announced for his capture. ¹

His earlier record was also questioned: the French magazine L'Express noted that, as president of the Libyan Court of Appeal before 2007, he had presided over the court that confirmed the death sentences in the Bulgarian nurses HIV trial, a point his critics held against his human-rights reputation. ¹

On 24 February 2011 Abdul Jalil chaired a meeting of opposition politicians, former officers, tribal leaders, academics and businessmen in Beida that began the formation of an interim administration based in Benghazi. The National Transitional Council's founding statement of 5 March 2011 named him its chairman. He called for a no-fly zone, promised democratic elections, and on 24 August 2011 said elections would be held within eight months; the council handed power to the elected General National Congress on 8 August 2012. ^{1 2}

He was later charged, with ten other council officials, in connection with the July 2011 assassination of General Abdul Fatah Younis, the former interior minister who had defected to the rebels; none was arrested. An email in the leaked Clinton archive alleged that he had ordered the killing — an allegation reported here as the sources give it. In an October 2020 television interview he denied any involvement in Younis's assassination. ¹

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