Ayesha Gaddafi, known as Aisha Gaddafi, is a Libyan former mediator and military official, former UN Goodwill Ambassador, and lawyer by profession.
20 Facts About Ayesha Gaddafi
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Ayesha Gaddafi trained with the Libyan military, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-colonel.
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In 2000, Ayesha Gaddafi gave a speech at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London in support of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
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Ayesha Gaddafi has served as a mediator on behalf of the government with European Union corporations.
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Ayesha Gaddafi is the head of the charity Wa Attassimou, which defended Muntadhar al-Zaidi when he faced charges stemming from the shoe-hurling incident.
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Ayesha Gaddafi was placed under a travel ban under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 from 26 February 2011 to 16 October 2023.
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Ayesha Gaddafi sued NATO over the bombing of a building in her father's compound which she alleged killed her brother, Saif al-Arab Ayesha Gaddafi, and her own infant daughter.
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Ayesha Gaddafi claimed that the attack was illegal because it targeted civilian buildings.
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Ayesha Gaddafi's lawyers filed the petitions in Brussels and Paris in June 2011.
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On 3 June 2012, through her lawyer Nick Kaufman, Ayesha Gaddafi petitioned the judges of the International Criminal Court requesting that they order the prosecutor - Fatou Bensouda to disclose what steps she had taken to investigate the murder of her father and brother Mutassim Gaddafi.
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The group was allowed in on humanitarian grounds, because Ayesha Gaddafi was pregnant and near her term.
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Libya's rebels said sheltering Ayesha Gaddafi family members was an act of aggression, and called for their extradition.
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On 30 August 2011 it was announced that Ayesha Gaddafi had given birth to a girl in the city of Djanet.
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Ayesha Gaddafi had been kicked out for repeatedly setting fire to her safe house in Algeria.
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The EU amended their sanctions list in 2014, but did not include Ayesha Gaddafi, and rejected her requests to be removed from the list.
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Ayesha Gaddafi then sued on the basis that after the death of her father, there was now no reason for any bans.
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In May 2016, her mother and some of her family were allowed to return to Libya, still they were rejected and went back to Oman as asylum seekers, but Ayesha Gaddafi remained in Oman.
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On 17 October 2024, the State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow opened a six-week exhibit of dozens of Ayesha Gaddafi's artworks, including a painting of a crowd hovering over the corpses of her father and her brother who was killed alongside him.
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Ayesha Gaddafi attended the exhibition of her artworks in Moscow, Russia.
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Ayesha Gaddafi was dubbed in the Arab press as the "Claudia Schiffer of North Africa," because of her dyed hair.