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| Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam sentenced to death by court in Libya | Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam sentenced to death by court in Libya |
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| A court in the Libyan capital has sentenced Muammar Gaddafi’s most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, to death in absentia for suppressing peaceful protests during the country’s 2011 revolution that ended his father’s rule. | |
| The Tripoli court also handed down a death sentence by firing squad to Gaddafi’s former spy chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, and his former prime minister, Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi. | |
| Libya has slid into chaos since the 2011 overthrow and killing of Muammar Gaddafi. It is now bitterly divided between an elected parliament and government cornered in the country’s east, with little power on the ground, and an Islamist militia-backed government in the west that has seized Tripoli. | |
| Since 2011 Saif Gaddafi has been held by a militia in Zintan region, allied with Libya’s internationally recognised government in Tobruk, that opposes the regime in Tripoli. | |
| Saif Gaddafi is also wanted by the International criminal court in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity. | |
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