May 29. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Misrata appeals court has sentenced 35 Islamic State terrorists to death for fighting alongside the jihadist group during the chaos in which Libya was plunged after the fall of the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
The court has also sentenced 12 other terrorists to life imprisonment, while several minors have been sentenced to ten years in prison after a trial that has lasted nine months against at least 320 natural jihadists from countries such as Syria, Tunisia or Sudan, according to They have collected the local newspapers.
Islamic State has been active in Libya since the uprising that toppled the Gaddafi regime in 2011. The terror group seized control of the coastal city of Sirte in 2015, but lost it in 2016 to an offensive by local forces backed by the Islamic State. American war aviation.
Libya is divided into two administrations after the House of Representatives terminated the mandate of the prime minister of unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibé, for the postponement of the presidential elections in December 2021 and appointed Fazi Bashaga to the position, recently suspended from office and replaced by now Finance Minister Osama Hamad.
Dbeibé was elected as prime minister by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) in February 2021, replacing the until then prime minister of unity, Fayez Serraj, who agreed to cede his powers after the consultation process, which began after a ceasefire agreement after the Tripoli authorities rejected the military offensive launched in April 2019 by General Khalifa Haftar, aligned with the authorities based in the east.
