An appeal court in southern Libya on Thursday accepted the appeal submitted by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi against his disqualification from the list of candidates for the 24 December presidential elections, local media reported.

Over the past week, a standoff in a lawless city nestled in Libya’s desert badlands has been taking place between the second-eldest son of the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi and the father’s one-time general, eastern commander Khalifa Haftar.

A Libyan appeals court on Wednesday rejected two petitions against interim prime minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah’s candidacy in this month’s presidential election, Libyan media reported.

Zawiya Court of First Instance on Tuesday ruled to exclude Khalifa Haftar from next month’s presidential election, according to local media.

The son of the late Libyan President, Muammar Gaddafi, Saif Al-Islam, yesterday said that a “military force surrounded the Sabha Court for a second day in a row, and prevented judges and staff from accessing the building.”

Libyan warlord, Khalifa Haftar’s militia, on Monday, surrounded the Sabha Court of Appeal in southern Libya ahead of a session to hear an appeal by Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi against a decision to exclude him from the country’s presidential elections, according to local media, Anadolu News Agency reports.

A Libyan court in Benghazi yesterday rejected an appeal filed against the candidacy of retired Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar in the country’s presidential election next month.

Tripoli Appeals Court has accepted two appeals against the presidential candidacy of the current Prime Minister and presidential candidate, Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah, ahead of the December 24 vote.

The United Nations mission in Libya, on Friday, condemned an attack on a court in the south-western city of Sebha, Anadolu News Agency reports.

The permanent court-martial in Misrata sentenced in absentia on Thursday Khalifa Haftar to death for bombing Misrata Air Defense College in 2019 and causing the killing of one Libyan Army soldier after strikes by a military plane under the command of Haftar’s forces.