RE:Who Is Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, Once the Heir to His Father’s Regime and Now Free in Libya?

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Who Is Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, Once the Heir to His Father's Regime and Now Free in Libya?

After more than five years in captivity in the Libyan mountain town of Zintan, Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, the man presumed to inherit the Qaddafi regime from his father before the country erupted in bloody civil war in 2011, has been set free. Following his capture at the febrile end of Libya's revolution, Qaddafi's son was such a prize to the Zintan militias that he was never let go. Now, in the shifting allegiances and loyalties of the country's intractable civil war, Saif al-Islam, who was sentenced to death by the Libyan court via video link in 2015 for the role he played in the revolution, is under the protection of Libya's eastern government in its stronghold of Bayda, according to local reports.