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Libya's election commission said on Wednesday that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the former ruler and a major candidate in December's planned presidential election, was ineligible to run, compounding the turmoil surrounding the vote.

The son of Libya's late dictator Muammar Gaddafi appeared for nearly the first time in a decade on Sunday to register as a presidential candidate for a December vote planned to help end the years of chaos since his father was toppled.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has been freed by an armed group in western Libya where he was being held following the 2011 revolt against his late father, former leader Muammar Gaddafi, one of his lawyers and the brigade involved said.

A Libyan court passed a death sentence in absentia on Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son Saif al-Islam today for suppressing peaceful protests during the country's 2011 revolution that ended his father's rule.

A Libyan court will rule on July 28 on a son of Muammar Gaddafi and 36 other former regime officials accused of war crimes and suppressing peaceful protests during the 2011 revolution, a state prosecutor said on Monday.

Libya opened the trial of deposed leader Moammar Gaddafi's sons and dozens of his ex-officials on Monday in a test of its transition to democracy, but it was quickly adjourned as some of the investigations had not been completed.

Saadi Gaddafi and Saif al-Islam, two of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's sons, are expected to appear in court on Monday, facing charges of corruption and war crimes alongside more than 30 other Gaddafi-era officials.

International Criminal Court judges on Friday rejected Libya's request to annul the international arrest warrant for the son of the late Moammar Gaddafi and let the country's new government try him in Tripoli.

Saif al-Islam, a son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, appeared in court on Thursday in the town of Zintan, where he had been held since his capture by former rebels in November 2011.

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam appeared in a court on Thursday for the first time since his capture more than a year ago, Libya's public prosecutor's office said.

Libya can guarantee the son of its former dictator a fair trial, Libyan government lawyers said on Tuesday at a hearing on whether Saif al-Islam Gaddafi should face justice at home or at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

British spy agency MI6 played a key role in the capture of Saif al-Islam, son of slain Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi, a media report said. The top-secret 25 million pound mission, dubbed Operation X, used the latest hi-tech electronic intelligence gadgets to bug his phones and finally lead to the capture of the 39-year-old in the Libyan desert la...

Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's sons Saif al-Tslam told Britain's Sky News on Tuesday that the country's air force had not been used to attack civilians protesting against his father's rule.Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said the Libyan people had come under "heavy bombardment" from Arabic television channels which had "managed to convince the world that th...

Libya's election commission said on Wednesday that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the former ruler and a major candidate in December's planned presidential election, was ineligible to run, compounding the turmoil surrounding the vote.

The son of Libya's late dictator Muammar Gaddafi appeared for nearly the first time in a decade on Sunday to register as a presidential candidate for a December vote planned to help end the years of chaos since his father was toppled.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has been freed by an armed group in western Libya where he was being held following the 2011 revolt against his late father, former leader Muammar Gaddafi, one of his lawyers and the brigade involved said.

A Libyan court passed a death sentence in absentia on Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son Saif al-Islam today for suppressing peaceful protests during the country's 2011 revolution that ended his father's rule.

A Libyan court will rule on July 28 on a son of Muammar Gaddafi and 36 other former regime officials accused of war crimes and suppressing peaceful protests during the 2011 revolution, a state prosecutor said on Monday.

Libya opened the trial of deposed leader Moammar Gaddafi's sons and dozens of his ex-officials on Monday in a test of its transition to democracy, but it was quickly adjourned as some of the investigations had not been completed.

Saadi Gaddafi and Saif al-Islam, two of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's sons, are expected to appear in court on Monday, facing charges of corruption and war crimes alongside more than 30 other Gaddafi-era officials.

International Criminal Court judges on Friday rejected Libya's request to annul the international arrest warrant for the son of the late Moammar Gaddafi and let the country's new government try him in Tripoli.

Saif al-Islam, a son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, appeared in court on Thursday in the town of Zintan, where he had been held since his capture by former rebels in November 2011.

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam appeared in a court on Thursday for the first time since his capture more than a year ago, Libya's public prosecutor's office said.

Libya can guarantee the son of its former dictator a fair trial, Libyan government lawyers said on Tuesday at a hearing on whether Saif al-Islam Gaddafi should face justice at home or at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

British spy agency MI6 played a key role in the capture of Saif al-Islam, son of slain Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi, a media report said. The top-secret 25 million pound mission, dubbed Operation X, used the latest hi-tech electronic intelligence gadgets to bug his phones and finally lead to the capture of the 39-year-old in the Libyan desert la...

Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's sons Saif al-Tslam told Britain's Sky News on Tuesday that the country's air force had not been used to attack civilians protesting against his father's rule.Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said the Libyan people had come under "heavy bombardment" from Arabic television channels which had "managed to convince the world that th...