US EditionLebanon lifts travel ban on Gadhafi’s son and reduces bail to $900,000 paving way for his release
Bail reduced from $11 million to about $900,000 after talks with Libyan delegation, allowing Hannibal Gadhafi to leave Lebanon once bail is paid, officials said.
- On Thursday, Lebanese judicial authorities lifted Hannibal Gadhafi's travel ban and cut his bail to 80 billion Lebanese pounds , paving the way for his release once paid.
- Lebanese authorities have held Hannibal Gadhafi for 10 years without trial after seizing him in 2015 in Baalbek; he has been jailed in Beirut while questioned over Moussa al-Sadr's disappearance.
- A mid-October ruling set $11 million bail for Hannibal Gadhafi but imposed a travel ban, while his lawyers said he lacked funds and sought permission to leave Lebanon.
- Gadhafi has decided to leave Lebanon once released, officials said his family will follow later, and Charbel Milad al-Khoury, one of Gadhafi's lawyers, said they had just been informed and would discuss the matter.
- Libya formally requested Hannibal Gadhafi's release in 2023 citing hunger strike and deteriorating health, while Moussa al-Sadr's 1978 disappearance remains a long-standing Lebanese political tension.
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Lebanon dramatically reduces bail on detained Hannibal Gaddafi
A Lebanese judge has drastically reduced the $11 million bail imposed for the release of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of deposed Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, a judicial official said Thursday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP "the judge had decided to reduce the bail from $11 million to $900,000 and to lift the travel ban". His lawyer said this would secure his quick release. Lebanese authorities arrested the younger Gaddafi …
Lebanon lifts travel ban on Qaddafi’s son and reduces bail to $900,000 paving way for his release
BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities lifted a travel ban and reduced bail for the son of late Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi paving the way for his release, judicial officials and one of his lawyers said Thursday. The decision by the country’s judicial authorities came days after a Libyan delegation visited Lebanon and made progress in talks for the release of Hannibal Qaddafi. In
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Lebanon lifts travel ban on Gadhafi's son and reduces bail to $900,000 paving way for his release
Lebanese authorities have lifted a travel ban and reduced bail for the son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi paving the way for his release.
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