Appeals court sentences 14 others to life in prison for campaign including the beheading of Egyptian Christians in 2015. A Libyan court has sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison for their role in a deadly ISIL (ISIS) campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015. The court sentenced three minors to 10 years in prison each, said lawyer Lotfi Mohaychem. ISIL and other groups exploited the chaos that engulfed Libya after the 2011 uprising that toppled and later killed longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi. Hundreds of alleged former ISIL fighters remain jailed in Libyan prisons, many of whom are still awaiting trial.
