Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement on Thursday that called on the Lebanese authorities to immediate release Hannibal Gaddafi, who has been held in pre-trial detention for 10 years.

HRW reported that Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was detained by Internal Security Forces in December 2015 “on apparently unsubstantiated allegations that he was withholding information about the disappearance of Lebanese cleric Moussa al-Sadr.” Al-Sadr , a highly revered figure in Lebanon, disappeared on August 31, 1978, after meeting with Muammar Gaddafi. Hannibal Gaddafi was two years old at the time.

Researchers interviewed Hannibal and his lawyer in prison and learned that he is currently being held in a windowless, but ventilated underground cell. Hannibal told HRW tha

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