First photos of Hannibal Gaddafi after release from Lebanese detention
First photos of Hannibal Gaddafi after release from Lebanese detention
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Lebanon has released Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, after nearly ten years in detention, following the payment of bail estimated at USD 900,000, according to his lawyer.
The release was confirmed by Professor Charbel Milad Khoury, a member of Gaddafi’s defense team, who told the Associated Press that the process was completed Monday evening after all required administrative and legal documents were signed.
The decision came after Lebanese authorities lifted a travel ban and lowered Gaddafi’s bail from USD 11 million to USD 900,000, paving the way for his release. Judicial sources confirmed that Gaddafi intends to leave Lebanon, with his family expected to follow him later.
The development follows a recent visit by a Libyan delegation to Lebanon, which reportedly made significant progress in negotiations regarding his case.
Hannibal Gaddafi, who has been held in Lebanon since 2015, was accused of withholding information about the 1978 disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric Moussa al-Sadr during an official trip to Libya. At the time of the cleric’s disappearance, however, Gaddafi was less than three years old.
In 2023, Libya formally requested his release, citing his deteriorating health after he went on a hunger strike to protest his detention without trial.
Gaddafi had been living in exile in Syria with his Lebanese wife, Aline Skaf, and their children before being abducted in 2015 by Lebanese militants seeking information about al-Sadr’s fate. Lebanese police later recovered him from Baalbek and placed him in detention in Beirut, where he remained until his release this week.
The case of Moussa al-Sadr has long been a source of tension between Lebanon and Libya. The cleric, who disappeared along with Abbas Badreddine and Mohammed Yacoub, founded the Amal Movement, a Shiite political and paramilitary group that played a key role during Lebanon’s civil war.
Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in 2011 during.
