BEIRUT — The health of Hannibal Gadhafi, son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, was deteriorating three days after he began a hunger strike to protest his prolonged detention without trial in Lebanon.
Gadhafi was suffering from headaches and muscle pain, his lawyer, Paul Romanos, told The Associated Press. He was also feeling back pain in his small cell.
Gadhafi, 47, began a hunger strike on Saturday to protest his “arbitrary and political detention” over his alleged involvement in the disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric Musa al-Sadr in the late 1970s.
In a statement, Gadhafi called for his immediate release after being detained for years for a crime he said he did not commit. “How can a political prisoner be held without a fair trial all these years?” he added.
