Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam sentenced to death by firing squad

Saif al-Islam, the most prominent son of Libya’s former leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has been sentenced to death by firing squad. He was sentenced on Tuesday along with other senior members of the former regime, overthrown in 2011. They were accused of war crimes and suppressing peaceful protests during the revolution, a state prosecutor said in June. Al-Islam gave evidence via video link as he is being held by a former rebel group that is refusing to release him. It is not clear what will happen to him next. Educated at the London School of Economics and considered by many to be the country’s de-facto prime minister, he refused to abandon his father when protests sprung in several Libyan cities in early 2011.

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Former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi and Gaddafi’s last prime minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi were also among those sentenced to death. The trial, which opened in the Libyan capital in April last year, has been dogged by criticism from human rights watchdogs and an unresolved dispute with the International Criminal Court in The Hague over jurisdiction in Saif al-Islam’s case. The Gaddafi regime was toppled in 2011 and the former leader was killed later that year. Al-Islam was found by fighters from the Zintan brigade trying to cross into Niger just a month after his father’s death.

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