WORLD: MUAMMAR GADDAFI’S MOST PROMINENT SON, SAIF AL-ISLAM, AND EIGHT OTHERS TO DEATH FOR WAR CRIMES, INCLUDING KILLINGS OF PROTESTERS!

A Libyan court on Tuesday sentenced Muammar Gaddafi’s most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, and eight others to death for war crimes, including killings of protesters,

during the 2011 revolution that ended his father’s rule.
The former Gaddafi regime officials sentenced to die by firing squad included former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi and ex-Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, chief investigator at the Tripoli state prosecutor's office Sadiq al-Sur told a televised news conference in Tripoli. The trial outcome drew swift criticism abroad, with Human Rights Watch (HRW) and a prominent international lawyer saying it was riddled with legal flaws and carried out amid widespread lawlessness undermining the credibility of the judiciary.

Eight ex-officials received life sentences and seven jail terms of 12 years each, Mr. Sadiq said. Four of the 37 defendants were acquitted, others got shorter jail terms. Muammar Gaddafi himself was killed by rebels who captured him after months on the run. Mr. Sadiq did not spell out the charges plagues Libya. Saif appeared by video link only at the truly independent where utter lawlessness prevails and certain groups are unashamedly shielded from justice," Joe Stork, HRW’s deputy John Jones, a British lawyer hired to represent Saif al-Islam before the ICC, said a "show trial" led to the death sentences. "The whole thing is illegitimate from start to finish... It's judicially sanctioned execution," Jones said.