informed the head of the National Transitional Council. Libya's rebels said sheltering Gaddafi family members was an act of aggression, and called for their extradition. On 30 August 2011 it was announced that Ayesha had given birth to a girl in the city of Djanet. They were reportedly being confined by the Algerian government to a villa in Staoueli near Algiers, and were being cut off from outside communications. Life in exile In October 2012 she, along with two of her brothers and other family members, left Algeria to go to Oman, where they were granted political asylum. She had been kicked out for repeatedly setting fire to her safe house in Algeria. Ennahar newspaper reported that "she had blamed Algeria for her many problems." The last straw was when she burned a portrait of the country's president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The EU amended their sanctions list in 2014, but did not include Ayesha, and rejected her requests to be removed from the list. She then sued on the basis that after the death of her father, there was now no reason for any bans. In May 2016, her mother and some of her family were allowed to return to Libya, still they were rejected and also went back to Oman as an asylum seeker but Ayesha Gaddafi remained in Oman. In January 2017, European Union’s General Court announced that her appeal had been successful, and that all sanctions and travel bans were now lifted. The court directed that EU governments pay court costs. As of March 2017, she reportedly was no longer in Oman and was living in Amman. In April 2021, the EU court ruled on removing Aisha Gaddafi from the European blacklist. According to the court, she no longer represented a threat to peace and security in the region. Personal life Ayesha was dubbed in the Arab press as the "Claudia Schiffer of North Africa," because of her dyed hair. On 16 April 2006, she married Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, a grandson of her father's uncle and an army colonel. Her husband was killed in the 26 July bombing of Gaddafi’s compound. They had three children prior to the fall of the regime, one of whom was killed along with one of her brothers in a NATO airstrike and another killed along with her husband in the bombing of Gaddafi's compound. Algerian authorities confirmed that she gave birth to