Lebanese judge grants Gaddafi’s son $11m bail

A justice connected Friday ordered the merchandise connected bail of Hannibal Kadhafi, lad of longtime Libyan ruler Moamer Kadhafi, aft astir a decennary of pre-trial detention successful Lebanon, a judicial authoritative said.

After questioning Kadhafi, the justice ordered his merchandise “on $11 cardinal bail and banned him from travel”, the authoritative told AFP, requesting anonymity.

Lebanese authorities arrested Kadhafi successful 2015 and accused him of withholding accusation astir the disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric Mussa Sadr astir 4 decades earlier, erstwhile Kadhafi was a child.

Lawyer Laurent Bayon told AFP that “release connected bail is wholly unacceptable successful a lawsuit of arbitrary detention. We volition situation the bail.”

He noted that his lawsuit “is nether planetary sanctions” and could not wage specified a sum.

“Where bash you privation him to find $11 million?” helium added.

Sadr — the laminitis of the Amal movement, present an state of militant radical Hezbollah — went missing successful 1978 during an authoritative sojourn to Libya, on with an adjutant and a journalist.

Beirut blamed the disappearances connected Moamer Kadhafi, who was overthrown and killed successful a 2011 uprising, and ties betwixt the 2 countries person been strained ever since.

Married to a Lebanese model, Hannibal Kadhafi had fled to Syria. He was kidnapped successful December 2015 by equipped men who took him to Lebanon, wherever authorities yet arrested him.

In August, Human Rights Watch urged Lebanon to instantly merchandise Kadhafi, saying it had wrongly imprisoned him connected “apparently unsubstantiated allegations that helium was withholding information” astir Sadr.

This month, Bayon had raised the alarm astir his wellness and called for his merchandise aft Kadhafi, who helium said suffers from terrible depression, was hospitalised for abdominal pain.

Parliament talker Nabih Berri, who succeeded Sadr astatine the caput of the Amal movement, has accused Libya’s caller authorities of not cooperating connected the contented of Sadr’s disappearance, an accusation Libya denies.

AFP

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