{"id":41322,"date":"2025-11-10T22:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=41322"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:44:17","slug":"czxnq6d71y9oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/10\/czxnq6d71y9oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaddafi&#8217;s youngest son released after 10 years in Lebanese detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Hannibal Gaddafi, the youngest son of the deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been released by Lebanon after nearly 10 years in detention without trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Lebanese authorities seized Mr Gaddafi, now 49, in 2015, accusing him of concealing information about the fate of a Lebanese Shia cleric who disappeared in Libya in 1978, when he was just two. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Human rights groups had denounced the accusations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His lawyer told the AFP news agency his $900,000 (\u00a3682,938) bail had been paid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Laurent Bayon said: &#8220;It&#8217;s the end of a nightmare for him that lasted 10 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In October, a judge set a $11m bail against Gaddafi&#8217;s release but this was reduced last week after an appeal by his defence team, according to AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mr Bayon said his client would leave Lebanon for a &#8220;confidential&#8221; destination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;If Gaddafi was able to be arbitrarily detained in Lebanon for 10 years, it&#8217;s because the justice system was not independent,&#8221; Bayon said, according to AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In 2015, Mr Gaddafi was briefly abducted by an armed group in Lebanon before being freed. He was later detained by Lebanese authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">After his father was overthrown by rebels and killed in 2011, he fled to Syria and then had lived under house arrest in Oman with his wife Aline Skaf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Before the fall of his father&#8217;s regime Mr Gaddafi was known for his lavish lifestyle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The disappearance of Shia cleric Musa al-Sadr in Libya in 1978 has been a source of tension between Libya and Lebanon for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Hannibal Gaddafi was only two at the time and held no senior position in Libya as an adult.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Gaddafis #youngest #son #released #years #Lebanese #detention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannibal Gaddafi, the youngest son of the deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been released by Lebanon after nearly 10&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41324,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41322\/revisions\/41324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}