Saif Gaddafi appears in court charged with trying to escape jail and insulting new Libyan regime’s flag
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 18, 2013 23:14
The son of former Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi has appeared in court today charged with attempting to escape jail, harming state security and insulting the new regime’s flag.
Saif-al Islam, who had been considered the most natural successor to his father before the fall of his regime in 2011, appeared in court in the western town of Zintan where he is being held by militiamen, according to the official Libyan news agency LANA.
Former playboy Saif-al Islam faces trial for killing, torturing and persecuting civilians in the early days of the uprising.
He was arrested in November 2011 in Libya’s southern desert while trying to flee to Niger. Since then, he has been held at a secret location in Zintan, western Libya.
He later received a PhD from the London School of Economics.
He reportedly once threw wild parties in the south of France and owned a £10million mansion in Hampstead, London.
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