Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, second son of the late deposed Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, is said to have been freed under an amnesty.
Believed to have been his father's preferred successor, he had been held by a militia group in the town of Zintan for the past six years.

The group announced on Saturday that he had been released.

He was sentenced to death by a court in Tripoli in 2015 but the group had refused to hand him over.

There had been false reports about Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's release previously.

He is also wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity during his father's unsuccessful attempts to put down the rebellion.