{"id":9051,"date":"2021-01-15T22:56:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3117985\/scottish-court-upholds-lockerbie-bomber-abdelbaset-ali-mohmet-al"},"modified":"2021-01-15T22:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:56:32","slug":"scottish-court-upholds-lockerbie-bomber-abdelbaset-ali-mohmet-al-megrahis-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/scottish-court-upholds-lockerbie-bomber-abdelbaset-ali-mohmet-al-megrahis-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish court upholds Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi\u2019s conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"Five judges at Scotland\u2019s highest court of criminal appeal on Friday upheld the conviction of the only man found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing after a posthumous legal challenge.The family of former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, which brought the case, said they were \u201cheartbroken\u201d at the decision, their lawyer Aamer Anwar said.They will apply to appeal to the UK Supreme Court within 14 days, he added.The ruling at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3117985\/scottish-court-upholds-lockerbie-bomber-abdelbaset-ali-mohmet-al\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five judges at Scotland\u2019s highest court of criminal appeal on Friday upheld the conviction of the only man found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing after a posthumous legal challenge.The family of former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Moh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9052,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions\/9052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}