31/03/2014 09:25
Gadhafi's son Saadi apologizes to the people of Libya in video
Libyan state television has aired a video of Moammar Gadhafi's son Saadi in which he apologized to the nation from prison, CNN reported.
"I apologize to the people of Libya and the brothers in the Libyan state for the disturbance and destabilization I have caused in Libya, and I admit those were wrong things that I should not have done," he said.
Saadi, one of Gadahfi's seven sons, has been in a Tripoli jail since his extradition earlier this month from neighboring Niger. The North African country had been seeking the handover of Saadi, who fled across the border to Niger when rebel forces toppled his father in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011.
He has not appeared in court yet and no formal charges against him have been announced, but the government has said it has evidence linking Saadi Gadhafi to recent unrest in southern Libya.
"I call on all the people carrying weapons to disarm, weapons should only be in the hands of the state," Saadi Gadhafi, dressed in a blue detainee suit, said in the video. "They should resort to reconciliation."
In the three-minute video clip, he also asks the Libyan government and general national congress, Libya's legislative body, for "forgiveness."
The conditions surrounding the release of the video are unclear.