Tripoli: Three members have been suspended by the Libya’s newly elected national assembly on Wednesday over links with former leader Muammar Gaddafi’s government, a spokesman said.
Omar al-Hassabi, spokesman for the assembly’s High Organisation for Transparency and Nationalism, said the suspensions had followed an investigation into the three.
“We discovered the three representatives were either members of the Gaddafi Revolutionary Guards or involved in criminal anti-revolutionary activities,” Reuters quoted Hassabi as saying.
“For this reason, we advised the National Congress which suspended their membership on Wednesday morning.”
The three suspended members are Anfish Abdel Moneim representing Tarhouna, Salma Akheil of Zlitan and Ibrahim Adah of Obari.
Hassabi said they would have 10 days to appeal the decision in court.
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