Hassan Yaaqoub's Brother Arrested at Airport
The brother of former MP Hassan Yaaqoub was arrested at Rafik Hariri International Airport on Monday against the backdrop of the kidnapping of Hannibal Gadhafi, the state-run National News Agency reported.
NNA said Hussein Yaaqoub was apprehended based on a judicial arrest warrant.
The former lawmaker was arrested in December and charged for his involvement in the kidnapping of Hannibal Gadhafi, the son of slain Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Hannibal was abducted in a Syrian area near the Lebanese border on December 11 before being smuggled into Lebanon's Bekaa region. He was handed over hours later to Lebanese security forces.
Lebanese authorities have charged Hannibal with withholding information about the disappearance of revered Shiite cleric and founder of the AMAL Movement Moussa al-Sadr, who vanished in Libya in 1978 along with two companions.
The Yaaqoub brothers are the sons of Sheikh Mohammed Yaaqoub – one of the two companions who disappeared with al-Sadr in Libya.
NNA said Monday that their mother Sheikha Imthal was hospitalized following the arrest of her son at the airport.
She was taken to Hotel Dieu Hospital's emergency unit after complaining of chest pain and partial paralysis in her arm as a result of her shock, NNA added.
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