Overview
- Lebanon’s National News Agency said Gaddafi was released after his defense lawyers paid roughly $900,000 in bail.
- Last month a court ordered his release, cut an initial $11 million bail to about $900,000, and lifted a travel ban, according to a judicial source.
- Gaddafi had been held since 2015 over accusations he withheld information on the 1978 disappearance of Lebanese cleric Musa al-Sadr.
- Human rights groups criticized the prolonged pre-trial detention, and Gaddafi undertook a hunger strike in 2023 that led to hospitalization.
- Libya’s Tripoli-based Government of National Unity thanked Lebanese leaders and signaled interest in reviving bilateral ties.