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Detained ex-MP supporters march to demand release
Relatives and supporters of former MP Hasan Yaacoub Thursday marched to protest his ongoing detention over the kidnapping of the son of former Libyan leader Moammer Gadhafi.
“My mother started a hunger strike ... we had thought that would awaken someone’s conscience,” Yaacoub’s brother Ali said as he led the march.
The mother of former MP Hasan Yaacoub began a hunger strike earlier this week in solidarity with her son. The mother had said in a statement that the hunger strike “was in protest of the continued arbitrary and political detention” of Yaacoub.
Protesters marched from the Beirut eastern suburb of Sin al-Fil to the Mount Lebanon Metn district area Burj Hammoud, carrying photos of Imam Musa Sadr, journalist Abbas Badreddine, and Yaacoub's father Sheikh Mohammed Yaacoub. The three men disappeared during an official visit to Libya in 1978.
Hannibal Gadhafi, son of the deposed Libyan leader, is currently being held for questioning over the trio's disappearence.
Arrest warrants were issued for Yaacoub and his three bodyguards – Zein Ali Kassem, Salim Mohammad Mahmoud and Wissam Ali al-Mousawi – last month.
All four suspects were charged with abducting Gadhafi, physically and psychologically torturing him, and failing to inform the appropriate authorities of his capture.
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