By Chaima Chihi & Euronews Arabic
A Libyan appeals court has acquitted 31 former officials of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime on charges of suppressing protesters during the 2011 revolution, bringing to a close a case that began in 2014 and originally doled out widely criticised death sentences three years later.
The verdict on Monday covers charges of ordering and carrying out the violent suppression of demonstrators during the 2011 uprising that ended Gaddafi's 42-year rule.
The defendants collectively faced 37 criminal charges, including killing unarmed protesters, inciting civil war, looting, destruction and genocide.
The defendants acquitted include former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, former Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, Mansour Daw, Mohamed Abu al-Qasim al-Zawi and Mohamed Ahmed al-Sharif.
