Was Hannibal Gaddafi released from Lebanese jail?
ALBAWABA - Is Hannibal Gaddafi, son of former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, still inside the Lebanese jail or was he released? A mistake has caused wide controversy on social media.
Was Hannibal Gaddafi released from Lebanese jail?
People were confused in the past few hours regarding the truth of the release of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan President, by the Lebanese authorities.
It started when the Libyan Ministry of Justice said a statement late Tuesday that Hannibal Gaddafi was released from jail. However, it quickly removed the post from its official Facebook page.
The Ministry of Justice of the government-designate deletes its post in which it announced its success in releasing Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has been detained in Lebanon for 10 years. Some considered this announcement to be merely… pic.twitter.com/zOcvlQXvqm — LIBYA TODAY 24 - ENGLISH (@Libyatoday24) March 4, 2025
Meanwhile, his lawyer Paul Romans confirmed to Al Arabiya/Al Hadath on Wednesday, that Hannibal is still in prison.
On the other hand, Khaled Masoud, the Libyan Minister of Justice in the eastern government, said that arrangements are underway and that Hannibal will be handed over to the Libyan government.
Masoud reportedly said that Hannibal Gaddafi is now out of prison but still in Lebanon.
Hannibal Gaddafi has been in prison in Beirut, Lebanon since 2005. (MORTEN JUHL / SCANPIX DENMARK / AFP)
Why Was Hannibal Gaddafi arrested?
Hannibal Gaddafi was kidnapped from Syria and handed over to the Lebanese authorities in 2015 where is accused by the Lebanese judiciary of "concealing information related to the fate of Imam Musa al-Sadr and his two companions, Sheikh Muhammad Yaqoub and journalist Abbas Badr al-Din, who went missing in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, in 1978, after arriving at the invitation of Muammar Gaddafi, and of participating in the crime of their disappearance."
But, Gaddafi rejected the accusations in the case of Musa al-Sadr's disappearance from his country and said that he did not have any information about the case because it occurred when he was a two-year-old child.
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