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Lebanon’s Al-Jadeed TV reported on growing controversy over the conditions of detention of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has been detained in Lebanon since 2015.
The channel reported that Hannibal is being held in an underground cell, which can accommodate some needs and medicines, and has a bathroom equipped with a floor chair.
Despite varying reports about his health condition, the channel quoted Gaddafi Jr. as saying that he was being treated with special treatment and complaining about his inappropriate conditions, expressing his desire to receive the necessary medical care.
In a related context, rumors circulated on social media about the death of Hannibal Gaddafi in Lebanese prisons, but the Lebanese Public Prosecutor denied this and stressed that his health condition is good.
Human Rights Watch called on the Lebanese authorities to immediately release Hannibal Gaddafi, noting that his pretrial detention comes on trumped-up charges and has no legal basis.
In another context, Lebanese media reported on the upcoming visit of a delegation from the Libyan Ministry of Justice to Lebanon, with the aim of activating judicial cooperation between the two countries, within the framework of the implementation of the memorandum of understanding signed between them in 2014.
The Lebanese Internal Security Forces, which oversee prison operations, arrested Gaddafi in December 2015, allegedly in connection with the disappearance of Lebanese Shia imam Musa al-Sadr and his two companions in Libya after an official visit in August 1978.
According to one of Gaddafi’s lawyers, Lebanese authorities accused Hannibal of “withholding information and subsequently intervening in the ongoing kidnapping” of Imam al-Sadr, even though Gaddafi’s age in 1978 was only two years old and did not hold any senior official position as an adult.
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