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Meanwhile, other defendants have received sentences ranging from five years to life imprisonment. Four defendants were acquitted and others got shorter jail terms.

Libyan news media said eight other senior Gadhafi government officials who are believed to be in the custody of the court had also been sentenced to death by firing squad.

The court also sentenced to death by firing squad, on the same charges, seven other former Gaddafi era officials, including his intelligence chief and prime minister.

Moammar Gadhafi’s son and onetime heir apparent was convicted and sentenced to death by a court in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on charges of murder and inciting genocide during the country’s 2011 uprising.

May 31, 2013 – The ICC rejects Libya’s bid to try Saif al-Islam Gadhafi and asks the nation to hand him over.

The Tripoli court that sentenced Seif al-Islam, who is being held by a militia that refuses to hand him over to the central government, also sentenced to death eight others, including former Libyan spy chief Abdullah al-Senoussi.

Seif al-Islam, the son of the former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, was sentenced to death by a Libyan court Tuesday over killings in the 2011 uprising that led to his father being removed from power.

Libya’s internationally recognized House of Representatives (parliament) on Tuesday unanimously approved a law of general amnesty, hours after a court in the capital of Tripoli issued death sentences on Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former leader Muammar Gaddafi. The court...