Former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s son Hannibal has been released from prison in Lebanon, his lawyer announced to AFP

Hannibal Gaddafi was arrested in 2015 by Lebanese authorities, who accused him of hiding information about the disappearance of Lebanese Shia leader Moussa Sadr in 1978.

The son of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Hannibal, was released after nearly ten years in captivity in Lebanon, his lawyer announced to AFP on Monday. “We’re leaving, he’s free”said lawyer Laurent Bayon, who earlier announced that his client’s bail, amounting to nearly 900,000 US dollars, had been paid into a Lebanese court. Hannibal Gaddafi, who had legal problems in France and Switzerland in the 2000s, fled to Syria to join his wife, a Lebanese model, before being arrested in Lebanon.

Lebanese authorities, who arrested Hannibal Gaddafi in 2015, accused him of hiding information about the disappearance of Lebanese Shiite leader Moussa Sadr in Libya in 1978, and they blamed his father. Hannibal Gaddafi, now 49, was two years old at the time of Moussa Sadr’s disappearance. His detention without trial poisoned relations between the two countries.