A Libyan national who says he escaped summary execution by Russian Wagner Group mercenaries filed a lawsuit in a court in Washington on Tuesday naming as defendant the group’s founder — Yevgeniy Prigozhin.
The suit alleges that Wagner fighters stationed in Libya murdered three members of a local family in 2019 after detaining them without explanation. The plaintiff in the case, Libyan national Mohammed Aboujaylah Ali Anbees, survived.
According to the account provided to the court, on the afternoon of Sept. 23, 2019, Anbees and several male family members were driving near their home in Espiaa, a village near Tripoli, when they were stopped by armed men, who later followed them to their home and detained them. Kip Hale, a lawyer specializing in atrocity crimes accountability and who served as investigation team leader of the United Nations’ Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya, said airing the allegations in a court would allow facts to be vetted and established. It could serve as a catalyst for later accountability, he said.“That’s not to say that Wagner’s leaders and all of their fighters are going to be dragged into court,” Hale said.
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