The government on Monday approved an application by the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office to open a case against Libya for hostage taking and extortion.
The application was made in connection with the case of the two Swiss businessmen, Rachid Hamdani and Max Göldi, who were prevented from leaving Libya in the aftermath of the brief detention in Geneva of a son of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi in July 2008.
The two men spent much of the time living in the Swiss embassy in Tripoli, but at one point in 2009 were lured out and held incommunicado for several weeks by the Libyan authorities – an action which the Swiss described as kidnapping. More...
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