Comment on this story Comment Gift Article ShareBEIRUT — A son of Libya’s late leader Moammar Gadhafi, who has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years, began a hunger strike Saturday to protest his detention without trial, his lawyer said. Hannibal Gadhafi has been held in Lebanon since 2015 after he was kidnapped from neighboring Syria where he had been living as a political refugee. Gadhafi was later taken by Lebanese authorities and has been held in a Beirut jail without trial. The disappearance of prominent Lebanese Shiite cleric Moussa al-Sadr in 1978 has been a long-standing sore point in Lebanon. He later ended up in Syria where he was given political asylum before being kidnapped and brought to Lebanon.
