Overview
- Libya’s Tripoli-based Government of National Unity said Lebanese authorities decided to free Hannibal Gaddafi and cancel the previously imposed bail.
- Attorney Sharbel al-Houri said the release will proceed after a reduced $900,000 bail is paid within two days, and he indicated Gaddafi intends to leave Lebanon.
- Lebanon had earlier set an $11 million bail and a travel ban, a figure the defense signaled it would challenge in court.
- Gaddafi was detained in Lebanon in December 2015 in connection with the unresolved disappearance of Musa al-Sadr during a 1978 visit to Libya.
- Gaddafi maintains he was abducted from Syria and has no information on al-Sadr’s fate, while Libyan officials previously pressed Beirut for his release, including a 2024 demand by the prosecutor general.