Local media reported al-Saadi Gadhafi was released after he was acquitted on charges dating back to the uprising against his father’s rule.
[September 5 2021]
Libyan authorities have released Saadi Gaddafi, a son of the former leader Muammar Gaddafi who was ousted and killed during a 2011 uprising, .Saadi Gaddafi fled for Niger during the NATO-backed uprising, but was extradited to Libya in 2014 and has been imprisoned since then in Tripoli.
He immediately departed on a plane to Istanbul, the official source said.
Saadi Gaddafi’s release resulted from negotiations that included senior tribal figures and Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, the official source said. Another source said the negotiations also involved former interior minister Fathi Bashagha
[July 31 2021 Saif al-Islam for President? ]
2017
Saif al-Islam does not exclude standing for the presidency.
He spoke at an opulent two-storey villa inside a gated compound at Zintan in the west of the North African country.
Until the interview, Saif al-Islam had not been seen or heard from since June 2014, when he appeared via video link from Zintan during his trial by the Tripoli court.
Saif al-Islam said ithat he was a free man organising a political return, and that his former captors “are now my friends”, the militiamen eventually realised he could be a powerful ally.
[September 6 2020 Gaddafi recognized by Russians ]
Saif al-Islam, 48, was sentenced to death for regime killings during the revolt, then freed after parliament passed a general amnesty in 2015. Before his father’s death, he was the heir-apparent.
The Wagner group dispatched consultants to work alongside him last year. Two were arrested and remain in prison in Tripoli. Investigations by Western journalists have linked the wealthy Russian businessman nicknamed “Putin’s chef” – Yevgeny Prigozhin – to the group. Mr Prigozhin, part of Mr Putin’s elite circle, has denied it.
Some Western diplomats have come around to viewing the former regime leaders as future players. One said it was a mistake to exclude them in the past from international attempts to bring all sides together. They are the silent majority, said another.
[December 9 2018]
Cairo December 6:Libyan politicians said December 5 they had delivered a letter from the son of the late Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, to the Russian Foreign Ministry, including means of ending the eight-year political crisis that has hit the country.
This came about two weeks after a Russian official disclosed contacts between his country and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
[August 22 2011 Saif al-Islam freed …Gaddafi now: Libyan Algerian border south of Tripoli ]
sabha, libya
in amenas, algeria
It is served by In Aménas Airport with Air Algérie flights to Algiers, Hassi Messaoud, Oran and Ouargla and Tassili Airlines flights to Adrar, El Golea, El Oued, In Salah, Tébessa and Touggourt.
It is not clear whether Saif al-Islam escaped from custody, or if he had never been captured in the first place. Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, appeared to reporters in a convoy of armored Land Cruisers in Tripoli on August 23 morning, more than a day after rebels claimed they had captured him. An ICC spokesman said different rebel factions had given different information.
“We believe [Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi] he’s still in the country,” Marine Col. David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman told a group of reporters August 21. “We don’t have any information that he’s left the country.”
There were reports that Gaddafi had fled to a bunker outside Tripoli, while the British representative of the rebels told Sky News he believed the dictator may have gone to Algeria.
Col Gaddafi’s recent media appearances have been by telephone. If he is outside Tripoli, he could have gone to one of two personal fiefdoms – his birthplace of Sirte, and his ancestral home of Sabha in the south, where he grew up. The rebels have made no serious attempt to capture either.
rebels had captured Gaddafi’s sons, Saif Al-Islam and Al-Saadi, have been confirmed by the ICC. they have also captured Gaddafi’s eldest son Mohammed Al-Gaddafi. A rebel spokesman confirmed to Reuters that he had surrendered. Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi helped his son Mohammed flee house arrest on Monday, Al Jazeera television reported, as rebels sought to secure full control of the capital Tripoli.
Mohammed Gaddafi was among three of Gaddafi’s sons to be captured by the rebels. The loyalist fighters stormed the house where Mohammed was held and set him free after clashes with guards there,
Saadi Gaddafi, a footballer.Guma el-Gamaty, the London-based co-ordinator for the NTC, said he believed Gaddafi’s other sons – he has seven – were either hiding or had fled. The whereabouts of his daughter, Aisha, also remains unknown, it says.
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