BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Hannibal Qadhafi, the son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Qadhafi, regained his freedom Monday after spending a decade in a Lebanese prison without being charged in connection with the 1978 mysterious disappearance of a prominent Lebanese Shiite cleric and political leader in Libya.
The 49-year-old Qadhafi was released Monday evening after a new bail of $900,000 -- reduced from the $11 million initially set by Investigative Judge Zaher Hamadeh -- was paid, according to his Lebanese lawyer, Nassib Chedid.
Chedid, who refrained from confirming reports that Libyan authorities had covered the bail, said Judge Hamadeh also lifted the two-month travel ban he had imposed along with the $11 million bail on Oct. 17, to which Qadhafi's lawyers had strongly objected.
"He is free now... it is over," he said, confirming that Qadhafi was still in Lebanon but would travel "very soon, for sure."
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