ICC gives Libya two weeks to decide what to do with Saif Gaddafi Saif al-Islam, once seen as a reformist possible successor to his father, faces indictments before the Hague-based ICC for complicity in crimes allegedly committed by his father in his attempts to put down the revolution against his rule last February. The Libyan authorities say he should be tried in Libya itself, however, and have been holding him in a house in the town of Zintan, south-west of the capital Tripoli, since his capture in the Sahara at the end of November. Under ICC rules, countries must say what they intend to do with captives wanted by the court. Libya had been given until Tuesday to give information of Saif al-Islam's conditions, access to legal advice, and whether and when they will hand him over. As the deadline approached, the Libyan government formally requested an extension to the end of January, but the ICC said in a statement that a response after January 23 would cause an "undue delay in the proceedings." Although Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor, has accepted Libya's right to hold the trial, ICC judges can still rule they wish to hear the case themselves if they deem conditions there not suitable. The Libyan authorities themselves have given no indication of how they would handle the formidable logistics of setting up a legal system that would satisfy the international community as well as allowing the trial to be witnessed by hundreds of international journalists. They told a Human Rights Watch investigator who was taken to see their captive last month that he would be allowed to see a lawyer once a secure prison had been established for him in Tripoli.