The controversial release of the last prime minister of the Muammar Gaddafi regime, Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi, has been rendered as temporary by the spokesman for the Libyan Justice Ministry of the Presidential Council’s government Mohammed Hammuda.

Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, Libya’s last prime minister under ousted dictator Moamer Gaddafi, has been released from jail for health reasons four years after being sentenced to death, Tripoli’s justice ministry said Saturday.

The Libyan High Court has acquitted the seven Filipino seafarers who were arrested two years ago for an alleged attempt to smuggle six million liters of oil.

Hamas is denouncing a Libyan military court’s heavy sentences levied on four Palestinians found guilty of smuggling arms from Libya to Hamas in Gaza, setting up a secret foreign organization inside Libya, possession of arms and conspiracy against state security. This is the first judicial security case involving Hamas in Libya.

Abdelhakim Belhaj has denied any involvement in any terror attacks within Libya. The denial came in response to an arrest warrant issued by Libya’s Attorney General last week naming Belhaj as being complicit in attacks on oil installations and an airbase.

The self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) has announced the start of military trials in eastern Libya for more than 200 people the armed group accuses of terrorism.

UNSMIL has today expressed its concern on the 45 death sentence by firing squad passed by a Tripoli Court of Appeal yesterday on 45 people aligned to the Qaddafi regime who had opened fire on pro 2011 revolution supporting protestors on the main Tripoli motorway back in 2011.

A Libyan appeals court on Wednesday sentenced 45 people to death by firing squad for killings committed in the capital, Tripoli, during a 2011 uprising, according to a statement from the justice ministry.

The Judicial Police condemned the kidnapping of a judge, a prosecutor and two of the security guards in an armed attack Sunday on the Court of Waddan town, central Libya.

The head of investigation bureau at the Libyan Attorney General Office in Tripoli  Al-Sediq Al-Sour said a decree was passed by the Minister of Justice to pardon (or release) several figures from the Moamar Gaddafi regime from prison out of “compassion for their deteriorated health.”