A court ordered on Sunday the release of Saadi Gaddafi, son of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in prison since 2014 for crimes he committed in 2014 against protesters.
Gaddafi immediately boarded a plane to Istanbul, official sources told the Reuters news agency on Sunday.
“The chief prosecutor asked, several months ago, for the execution of the decision relating to Saadi Gaddafi as soon as all the required conditions had been satisfied,” a source at the prosecutor’s office told the AFP news agency.
The 47 year-old son of Gaddafi fled to Niger during the 2011 uprising, but was returned to Libya in 2014 and has been imprisoned in Tripoli ever since.
The country has been driven into chaos since 2011, with rival factions and militias fighting for power, until an intim government of national unity was installed in March, ahead of elections scheduled for December 24.
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