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Hannibal Gaddafi Granted $11M Bail After Decade in Prison
Hannibal Gadhafi was held for a decade without charge over a 1978 disappearance case and faces an $11 million bail set by a Lebanese judge, his lawyers say he cannot pay.
- In Beirut, the court ordered Hannibal Qadhafi's release on $11 million bail after Judge Zaher Hamadeh questioned him for the first time since 2017 on Friday.
- After about ten years in detention, Qadhafi's lawyers said he had been ill in his cell at police headquarters, Beirut, while imprisoned without charges in Lebanon.
- The case stems from events in December 2015 when Hannibal Qadhafi was kidnapped near the Lebanese border, then rescued and arrested by Lebanese authorities, and charged in 2016 with withholding information about Musa al-Sadr.
- Qadhafi's lawyers say he cannot pay the $11 million bail and plan to challenge the two months travel ban.
- Pending payment, the court's order means Hannibal Qadhafi remains in prison, while Nassib Chedid warned releasing him could leave him vulnerable and said the judge seemed forced into the decision.
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Son of late Libyan dictator ordered released in Lebanon if he pays $11 million bail
After 10 years in prison without charge, a Lebanese judge has ordered the release of Hannibal Gadhafi, son of the late Libyan dictator, Moammar Gadhafi. But it’s on condition that he pays $11 million bail, something his lawyers say they will contest.
·Pointe-Noire, Congo
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Imam Musa Sadr’s family protests court decision to release Gaddafi’s son on bail
The family of Lebanon’s prominent Shia cleric Imam Musa al-Sadr has voiced its protest at a Lebanese judge’s decision to order the release of Hannibal Gadhafi on $11 million bail.
·Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
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Anadolu AjansıLebanon approves release of late Libyan leader’s son on $11 million bail, travel ban
·London, United Kingdom
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A judge in Lebanon has ordered the release of Gaddafi, who was arrested in 2015, accused of involvement in the disappearance of Shiite cleric Musa Sadr in 1978, during his visit to Libya at the time - Detail: Hannibal was then... two years old!
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