Baghdadi Mahmudi
Al - Ali al- Mahmudi Baghadi (Arabic البغدادي علي المحمودي, DMG al - Baghdadi al - Mahmudi ʿ Alī; ? * 1945) was since March 3, 2006 Secretary General of the General People's Committee, which corresponded approximately to the office of prime minister in Libya. He was the successor of Shukri Ghanim.
Career
Mahmudi was until March 2006, Deputy Prime Minister from June 2003. Previously, he was Minister of Health.
As Deputy Prime Minister, he had to monitor two massive infrastructure projects:
- The Great Man -Made River Project ( GMMR ) and
- A new railway project.
He was also Chairman of the Libyan Investment Authority, the Libyan sovereign wealth funds.
On 21 August 2011, he fled in the wake of the Libyan civil war from the troops of the National Transitional Council, which marched into the capital, Tripoli, on the Tunisian island of Djerba. On September 21, 2011, he was arrested while crossing the Algerian- Tunisian border in Tozeur in Tamaghza and sentenced to six months in prison for illegally crossing the border. On September 27, a court overturned the conviction and he was able to leave the prison. On October 17, 2011, he was admitted to a military hospital in Tunis. There have been problems with a hunger strike, with the al - Mahmudi was about to protest against his re-arrest. On November 8, 2011 decided by a court in Tunis that the application of the new Libyan government should be suited to his extradition. His lawyer and Amnesty International criticized the decision and stated that al - Mahmudi in Libya at risk of serious human rights violations. He then asked the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for assistance. Because of its illegal border crossing, he was mid- February 2012 finally acquitted by a Tunisian court. In May 2012, the Tunisian Ministry of Justice announced that al - Mahmudi will be shipped soon after Libya. On June 24, 2012, he was finally extradited to Libya. The authorities said that he has to stand trial for crimes against the Libyan people.