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June 2016 and on or around 17 July 2017, either by personally killing them or by ordering their execution." The arrest warrant notes that in seven incidents, which were videoed and posted on al-Saiqa's social media accounts, al-Werfalli either appeared to order the execution, or conducted the execution himself, of prisoners. The Court notes in the arrest warrant that "the executions were exceptionally cruel, dehumanising and degrading." Two days after the Court issued the warrant of arrest, the
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of the city. By at least 2017, al-Werfalli was a regional commander of al-Saiqa and oversaw at least one detention center. In that year al-Werfalli gained international notoriety by appearing in videos posted by al-Saiqa's social media accounts that depicted him executing or ordering the execution of
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Mahmoud al-Werfalli was indicted on 15 August 2017 with the war crime of murder with regard to the situation in Libya. The arrest warrant against him alleges that he "appears to be directly responsible for the killing of, in total, 33 persons in
Benghazi or surrounding areas, between on or before 3
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In its statement, the US Treasury said that Al-Werfalli was filmed on
January 24, 2018, "carrying out a mass execution of ten unarmed detainees in Benghazi. After each detainee was shot in the head one by one, Al-Werfalli fired freely on a group of ten detainees who were executed."
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Al-Werfalli died after his car was hit by bullets near the Arab
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prisoners. In total 7 videos were published. One video in particular allegedly depicted the execution of 20 men. Al-Werfalli's actions were singled out by the
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