Gaddafi’s son Saadi released from jail

Libyan authorities released Saadi Gaddafi, a son of the former leader Muammar Gaddafi who was ousted and killed during a 2011 uprising, a Libyan official source and a unity government source said on Sunday.

Saadi Gaddafi fled to Niger during the uprising, but was extradited to Libya in 2014 and has been imprisoned since then in Tripoli. He immediately departed on a plane to Istanbul, the official source said.

In 2018 the Justice Ministry said Saadi had been found not guilty of “murder, deception, threats, enslavement and defamation of the former player Bashir Rayani”.