Hope for decision on Medavia managers

A decision is expected in the coming days on the fate of the Medavia bosses arrested in Tripoli over allegations they helped the Gaddafi regime during the civil war, Libyan sources told The Times. Sources in Libya said the Tripoli government is in talks with the SSC – an elite unit set up to rein in the country’s unofficial militias – which arrested the two, to have a decision whether they should be released or tried in the coming days. The same sources said they were expecting a “positive decision”. The development comes almost two weeks after the managing director of the Malta-based air services company, Abdulrazagh Zmirli, and the firm’s technical general manager Abdalla Dekna were arrested. Libyans in Malta collecting a petition in support of Mr Zmirli said they had postponed plans for a protest because they too had heard he could be “released” shortly. One of the petitioners, electrician Elhadi Elwohashi, said he was hopeful there would be “good news” soon. In a matter of days some 150 signatures were collected in support of Mr Zmirli and sent to Libya with a lawyer. “There is no way that these allegations about Mr Zmirli can be true. Everyone here knows him and respects...