BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- A Lebanese judge on Friday ordered the release of Hannibal Qadhafi, son of late Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi, on a $11 million bail after he has been imprisoned in Lebanon for a decade without being charged.
Judge Zaher Hamadeh questioned Qadhafi for the first time since his last interrogation in 2017 and decided to release him on $11 million bail. He also prohibited him from traveling for two months.
Qadhafi, who had been living in Syria with his family since fleeing Libya in 2011 amid an uprising against his father, was kidnapped by armed men near the Lebanese border in December 2015, reportedly lured there under the pretense of a newspaper interview.
The armed men smuggled him into Lebanon, where they tortured him for information about the disappearance of Musa al-Sadr, a prominent Lebanese Shiite cleric and political leader who mysteriously vanished with two companions in August 1978 during an official visit to Libya.
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