The Military Prosecutor’s Office of Libya’s Defense Ministry issued an arrest warrant Sunday for Tobruk parliament-appointed Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha following clashes in the capital Tripoli.
The prosecutor’s office made a written request to the police, intelligence services and all security services in the country for the arrest.
It also demanded the arrest of Bashagha’s major ally, Maj. Gen. Osama al-Juwaili, the former head of the Tripoli-based military intelligence service; Bashagha’s Minister of Health and his government spokesman Othman Abdel-Jalil; and Mohamed Sowan, the chairman of Libya’s Democratic Party.
Bashagha blamed Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and government officials for the clashes in Tripoli.