BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese judge on Friday ordered the release of the son of Libya’s late leader Moammar Gadhafi on condition that he pay $11 million bail.
Hannibal Gadhafi has been imprisoned in Lebanon for a decade without being charged.
The expected release comes after his lawyers have said that he had been ill in his cell at police headquarters in Beirut. Libya in 2023 formally requested his release, citing his deteriorating health after he went on hunger strike to protest his detention without trial.
On Friday, judicial officials said he was taken to the Justice Palace in Beirut, where Judge Zaher Hamadeh questioned him and later ordered his release
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