Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Gaddafi's second son and the dictator's favoured heir, was detained by rebels on Sunday night, according to Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the head of the rebel National Transitional Council. A spokesman for the International Criminal Court confirmed the arrest by "rebel special forces".
Saif al-Islam, 38, was described as Libya's "de facto prime minister" by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the ICC. He is accused of recruiting the foreign mercenaries which attacked protestors during Libya's six-month uprising.
During the civil war he has acted as his father's official spokesman and, alongside his father and Abdullah al-Senussi, the regime's intelligence chief, was one of three people indicted by the ICC in June.

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