[LIBYAREVIEW] The Media Office of the Lebanese Prime Minister denied any contact between Prime Minister Najib Mikati and his Libyan counterpart Abdel-Hamid Dbaiba regarding the case of Hannibal Qadaffy.
Hannibal Qadaffy, a son for the Libyan late leader Muammar Qadaffy
...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards , and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland...
, has been imprisoned in Leb
 ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
since 2015. He has recently announced a hunger strike, a protest against his continued arbitrary detention, since his abduction from Syria in 2015.
"News is being circulated through social media claiming that Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU) has contacted PM Mikati regarding the case of Hannibal Qadaffy" Mikati’s Media Office stated.
"Mikati did not receive any contact from any Libyan party, and case of Hannibal Qadaffy is in the hands of the competent judiciary, and any follow-up to this file takes place through the competent judicial ways," the statement added.
"Mikati expresses Lebanon’s keenness on the best relations with the Libyan people," the statement noted.
On Thursday, Libya’s Presidential Council has recently established a committee, headed by Halima Abdel-Rahman, the Minister of Justice, to oversee the case of Hannibal Qadaffy’s imprisonment.
This decision places an emphasis on liaising with Lebanese authorities, to ensure the provision of humane conditions for Qadaffy.
A week ago, Hannibal, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy, declared an open-ended hunger strike, protesting his ongoing imprisonment in Lebanon for the past eight years without trial.
In a statement released by his lawyer, Paul Romanos, Hannibal stated, "in the face of persistent injustice and abuse against me, it is time for me to be released after more than a decade in prison for an arrest and allegations of a crime I did not commit."
He questioned "how, in a country of law and freedoms, such blatant violations of human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
could be ignored. How is it conceivable that a political prisoner is left without a fair trial for all these years? After persistent oppression against me, with no accountability, and deafening silence from those trusted to safeguard human rights, discarding its charter to the wind, I announce my hunger strike and hold all those who perpetuate injustice against me responsible for the consequences."
Hannibal was arrested in Lebanon in 2015. After his father’s death, he reportedly sought refuge in Syria, but was kidnapped there by members of the Lebanese Yacoub family.
The Lebanese judiciary has accused him of "concealing information related to the fate of Imam Musa al-Sadr and his lover companions, Sheikh Mohammed Yacoub, and journalist Abbas Badreddin, who disappeared in Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
in 1978, upon their arrival at the invitation of Muammar Qadaffy."
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