Hannibal Gaddafi, the youngest son of the deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been released by Lebanon after nearly 10 years in detention without trial.
The Lebanese authorities seized Mr. Gaddafi, now 49, in 2015, accusing him of concealing information about the fate of a Lebanese Shia cleric who disappeared in Libya in 1978 when he was just two years old.
Human rights groups had denounced the accusations against him.
His lawyer informed the AFP news agency that his $900,000 (£682,938) bail had been paid.
Laurent Bayon stated: It's the end of a nightmare for him that lasted 10 years. In October, the court had set a bail of $11 million against Gaddafi's release, which was reduced last week following an appeal by his defense team.
Mr. Bayon mentioned that his client would leave Lebanon for a confidential destination.
He further added, If Gaddafi was able to be arbitrarily detained in Lebanon for 10 years, it's because the justice system was not independent, as reported by AFP.
In 2015, Mr. Gaddafi had been briefly abducted by an armed group in Lebanon before being freed, only later to be detained by the Lebanese authorities.
After his father's overthrow and death in 2011, he fled to Syria and then lived under house arrest in Oman with his wife Aline Skaf.
Before the fall of his father's regime, Mr. Gaddafi was known for his lavish lifestyle.
The disappearance of Shia cleric Musa al-Sadr in Libya in 1978 has been a source of political tension between Libya and Lebanon for decades.
At the time, Hannibal Gaddafi was only two years old and held no significant position in Libya as an adult.
