On 12 May, the Office of the Attorney General announced that the Tripoli Criminal Court has completed proceedings against an individual named only as ‘A.M.A.D.’, one of the persons implicated in the 2013 Gharghour protest killings in Tripoli. The court found him guilty of homicide and imposed the death penalty by firing squad. In addition, the court sentenced him to five years in prison for possessing unlicensed weapons and ammunition and for using these weapons to prevent citizens from exercising their right to protest. The prosecution has referred the ruling to the judicial body responsible for reviewing death‑penalty judgments. Arrest warrants for the remaining suspects have been renewed, and efforts to apprehend them continue.
On social media there were some complaints that while this person has been sentenced to death, the sentence for former Qadhafi intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, who is responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of murders, has been postponed every time. They speculate that there are political obstacles or fear of his tribe or influence from Qadhafi supporters that prevent the trial from being concluded.