Newly freed Gaddafi meets with Salam, who calls for 'serious review' of his detention

BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met with Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, on Tuesday, a little over a week after his release from prison after nearly a decade years behind bars in Lebanon without trial.

"From my position of responsibility, I believe that what happened to him and his prolonged detention require a serious review, in order to guarantee individual rights and to protect the judiciary itself to ensure the proper functioning of justice," Salam wrote in a statement published on his X account on Tuesday.

After nearly ten years in detention, Gaddafi was released after posting a bail that was initially set at $11 million but was later reduced to $900,000 (about LL80 billion) by Judge Zaher Hamadeh at the defense team's request.

According to L'Orient Today's information, it was the Libyan government that paid the sum. He had been held at the General Directorate of Internal Security Forces building in Achrafieh.

Gaddafi was detained in 2015 for "withholding information" regarding the 1978 disappearance of the widely popular and well-loved Lebanese Shiite cleric and Amal Movement founder Musa Sadr and his two companions in Libya. Gaddafi was just three years old at the time.