Libya | U.N. following attempts to thwart electoral process

Libya’s top electoral body last week issued a list of candidates who did not meet conditions to run for office; among them was Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, the son of and once heir-apparent to the late dictator.

The United Nations expressed concerns on November 30 over the forced closure of a appeals court that is meant to decide .

The U.N. mission to Libya said in a statement that it is following reports that an armed group had ‘violently obstructed’ the functioning of a court in the city of Sabha in the southwest of the country.

Judges there are responsible for deciding on whether Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, the onetime heir apparent to his father, will be able to run for the country's top office, after he filed an appeal against a decision last week that barred him from taking part. The country's impending elections are the result of years of U.N.-led negotiations between the country's warring parties.