2023-08-14 17:00:22
Libya calls on Lebanon to release Gaddafi’s son after his health deteriorated
The Libyan judicial authorities have officially asked Lebanon to release Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who has been held in Lebanon without charges since 2015, due to his deteriorating health, officials said Monday.
Hannibal Gaddafi’s health has deteriorated since he went on hunger strike on 3 June to protest his detention without trial, and has been hospitalized at least twice since then with little water.
According to Lebanese judicial officials, the Libyan public prosecutor, Siddik al-Sour, earlier sent a request to his Lebanese counterpart, Ghassan Oweidat, about Hannibal Gaddafi.
The memorandum stated that Lebanon’s cooperation in this regard may help reveal the true fate of the Lebanese Shiite cleric, Musa al-Sadr, who disappeared in Libya in 1978.
The note asked why Gaddafi was being held, and demanded either that he be handed over to Libya or be allowed to return to Syria, where he had been living in exile with his Lebanese wife, Aline Skaf, and children until his kidnapping and bringing him to Lebanon eight years ago.
The Lebanese public prosecutor then referred the case to Zaher Hamadeh, the investigative judge in the al-Sadr case, who is examining the Libyan request and will respond at a later date.
Hannibal Gaddafi has been detained in Lebanon since 2015, after he was kidnapped by Lebanese gunmen to demand information about the whereabouts of al-Sadr. The Lebanese police later announced that they had arrested Gaddafi from the city of Baalbek in northeastern Lebanon, where he was being held, and he has been languishing ever since in a Beirut prison.
(Associated Press)
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