Overview
- Investigators and forensic doctors examined the body on Tuesday and confirmed death by gunshot wounds, the attorney general’s office said Wednesday.
- His political team reports four masked assailants disabled security cameras and fatally shot him during a confrontation at his residence in Zintan.
- Conflicting accounts persist over the exact location, with a family member claiming he died near the Algerian border.
- Authorities have launched a criminal investigation to identify suspects, as his lawyers and advisers call for an independent inquiry.
- Saif al‑Islam remained a polarizing figure under an ICC arrest warrant after a 2015 death sentence in absentia, a 2017 release by a Zintan militia, and a brief 2021 presidential bid in a fractured Libya.