July 28, 2015 – Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of deposed Head of State, Col Muammar Gaddafi has been sentenced to death by a court in Libya.
He was sentenced to death along with eight others for war crimes over the 2011 uprising that led to the overthrow of the late Gaddafi.
More than 30 close associates of Gaddafi were tried for suppressing peaceful protests during the revolution.
Saif al-Islam was not in court. He is reportedly being held by a former rebel group from Zintan that has refused to hand him over.
A Zintani source told BBC that they would neither execute him nor hand him over to the court. All those sentenced have 60 days within which they must appeal against the ruling.
