Lebanon judge orders Qadhafi's son release on $11m bail

A judge on Friday ordered the release on bail of Hannibal Qadhafi, son of deposed Libyan ruler Moamer Qadhafi, after nearly a decade of pretrial detention in Lebanon, a judicial official said.

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Lebanese authorities arrested Qadhafi in 2015 and accused him of withholding information about the disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric Mussa Sadr in Libya in 1978.

Qadhafi, now 49 according to his lawyer, was around two years old at the time of Sadr’s disappearance.

After questioning Qadhafi on Friday, the judge ordered his release “on $II million bail and banned him from travel”, the judicial official told AFP, requesting anonymity.

Lawyer Laurent Bayon told AFP that “release on bail is totally unacceptable in a case of arbitrary detention. We will challenge the bail.”