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BACKGROUND In November 1991, Megrahi and Fhimah were Indicted by the US Attorney General and the Scottish Lord Advocate for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 . Libya refused to extradite the two accused, but held them under house arrest in Tripoli . Seven years after the 1988 attack, as and the imposition of United Nations Economic Sanctions against Libya eventually brought the two accused to trial in a neutral country (see Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Trial ). Consequently, eleven years after the bombing, Megrahi and Fhimah were finally placed under arrest at Camp Zeist, Netherlands on April 5 , 1999 . CONVICTED Megrahi's appeal against his conviction at the , one of the UN observers at the trial, expressed serious doubts about the fairness of the proceedings and spoke of a "spectacular miscarriage of justice". Statement by Dr Hans Köchler, international observer at the Lockerbie trial On by a panel of five Judges on July 11 , 2006 . However, the Scottish Court Of Criminal Appeal decided to postpone the July hearing to allow consideration of whether the appeal against sentence ought to be heard at Camp Zeist rather than in Edinburgh. July hearing postponed REVIEW On , 2006 , retired Scottish Judge Lord MacLean – one of the three who convicted Megrahi in 2001 – said he believed the SCCRC would return the case for a further appeal against conviction: "They can't be working for two years without producing something with which to go to the court." MacLean added that any new appeal would indicate the flexibility of Scots law, rather than a weakness: "It might even be the strength of the system – it is capable of looking at itself subsequently and determining a ground for appeal." In January 2007, the SCCRC announced that it would issue its decision on Megrahi's case by the end of June 2007. SCCRC ruling by the end of June 2007 On , 2007 the '' Observer '' confirmed the imminence of the SCCRC ruling and reported: :"Abdelbaset al-Megrahi never wavered in his denial of causing the Lockerbie disaster: now Scottish legal experts say they believe him." Evidence that casts doubt on who brought down Flight 103 On 28 June 2007 the SCCRC announced referral of Megrahi case its decision to refer the case to the High Court. FAMILY He is married to Aisha, and has one son, Khaleb, who attended the trial; and a daughter, Ghada. According to British newspaper articles published during his trial, he was born in Tripoli , and was educated in the United States and the United Kingdom . REFERENCES
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