Libya's Tripoli appeal court set June 28 as the final sentence date for former leader Muammar Gaddafi's regime officials' trial, a source in the Attorney General Office told Xinhua on Wednesday.

"After hearing the defense case, the court has set June 28 as the final date of sentence of 37 Gaddafi regime officials," Al-Seddig Al-Sur, chief of investigations office of the Attorney General's office, told Xinhua.

"The verdicts will be final. However, they can be challenged by the defense attorneys and public persecution within three months after the verdicts are issued," Al-Sur added.

The 37 officials face charges of killing and repressing demonstrators during the 2011 uprising that toppled the Gaddafi regime, as well as contribution to genocide and besieging towns and villages that protested against Gaddafi regime.

A number of Gaddafi regime officials, including two of his sons Saif al-Islam and al-Saadi, remain in detention at Libyan prisons for several charges, including suppressing, killing and incitement to killing demonstrators, embezzling public money, and forming armed battalions to repress protesters in February 2011. Endit

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