(AhlulBayt News Agency) - "One hundred and ten LIFG prisoners, including three of its leaders, are to be freed today," Libyan League For Human Rights head Mohammed Tarnish told journalists from the compound of Tripoli's Abu Salim prison.
They were to walk free on the eve of a "Day of Anger" in Libya, called for by activists on Facebook, although the NGO head said the releases had been scheduled months ago.
Libya has already freed 250 prisoners from various Islamic groups including 40 from the LIFG, notably its former leader Abdelhakim Belhaj, military chief Khaled Shrif and principal ideologue Sami Saadi.
The rights groups said "those released had completed the rehabilitation programme for the renunciation of violence and reintegration of prisoners into Libyan society."
The programme was started by Seif al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, with the help of cleric Ali Sallabi.
The LIFG in 2007 reaffirmed its determination to topple Kadhafi's regime and to replace it with an Islamic state, and also stated its affiliation to Al-Qaeda.
It was run from Central Asia by a leading aide of Osama bin Laden, Abu Laith al-Libi, who was killed in February 2008 in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
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