BEIRUT: Lebanon released Hannibal Qaddafi, the son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, on bail on Monday after nearly a decade in prison, his lawyer told AFP.
“We left, he is free,” Laurent Bayon said, hours after Qaddafi’s bail of $900,000 was paid.
The younger Qaddafi, 49, was accused of withholding information about the 1978 disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric Mussa Sadr in Libya, but never put on trial.
He was two years old at the time of Sadr’s disappearance.
“The bail was paid this morning,” Bayon had told AFP earlier on Monday. “Hannibal Qaddafi will finally be free. It’s the end of a nightmare for him that lasted 10 years.”
