Hannibal Gaddafi, the youngest son of deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been released by Lebanon after being detained without trial for about 10 years.
Lebanese authorities arrested Gaddafi, now 49, in 2015 on charges of concealing information about the fate of a Lebanese Shiite cleric who disappeared in Libya in 1978 when he was two years old.
Human rights groups condemned the accusations.
His $900,000 (£682,938) bail had been paid, his lawyer told AFP.
“A 10-year nightmare is over,” Laurent Bayonne said.
A judge in October set bail at $11 million for Gaddafi’s release, but the bail was reduced last week after his lawyers appealed, according to AFP.
Mr Bayon said his client was leaving Lebanon for a “secret” destination.
“If Gaddafi could have been arbitrarily detained in Lebanon for 10 years, it was because the judicial system was not independent,” Bayon said, according to AFP.
In 2015, Gaddafi was briefly kidnapped by a Lebanese armed group and then released. He was later detained by Lebanese authorities.
After his father was overthrown and killed by rebels in 2011, he fled to Syria and has since lived under house arrest in Oman with his wife, Aline Skaff.
Before the fall of his father’s regime, Gaddafi was known for his lavish lifestyle.
The disappearance of Shiite cleric Musa al-Sadr from Libya in 1978 has been a source of tension between Libya and Lebanon for decades.
Hannibal Gaddafi was only two years old at the time and did not hold a high position in Libya as an adult.
