TRIPOLI
Libya's acting attorney general Ibrahim Anis Beshia was kidnapped in capital Tripoli on Saturday, sources at the High Court in the Libyan capital have said.
They said Beshia was outside a court complex in Tripoli when he was kidnapped.
"A group of armed men took the acting attorney general to an unknown location immediately after he finished his work at the complex," one of the sources said.
There has been no claim of responsibility for Beshia's kidnapping. Tripoli authorities have not issued an official comment on the event either.
Tripoli's High Court appointed Beshia acting attorney general in September of 2014 after the retirement of former attorney general Abdel-Qadir Radwan.
Libya has remained in a state of turmoil since a bloody uprising ended the decades-long rule of strongman Muammar Gaddafi in late 2011.
Since then, the country's stark political divisions have yielded two rival seats of government, each with its own institutions and military capacities.
Vying for legislative authority are the Tobruk-based parliament and an Islamist-led parliament, the latter of which – even though its mandate ended last year – continues to convene in capital Tripoli.
The two assemblies support two rival governments respectively headquartered in the two cities.
