Supporters of Ex-MP Yaacoub Block Roads, Protest Ongoing Detention
Supporters of ex-MP Hassan Yaacooub, who is detained in the kidnapping case of Hannibal Gadhafi, blocked the Tamnine-Riyaq road in Baalbek protest to his ongoing detention, the state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday.
Later during the day, the protesters blocked the Riyaq-Baablek and the Baalbek-Hermel highways with burning tires, expressing major dismay, it added.
On Saturday, the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau concluded investigations with former Yaaqoub in the kidnapping case of Hannibal Gadhafi, the son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
He was then referred to the General Prosecution.
The former lawmaker was arrested in connection to the abduction of Hannibal last week.He has denied any involvement in the case.
Hannibal was released on December 11 after a brief kidnapping at the hands of whom he said were groups sympathetic of the case of Imam Moussa al-Sadr, who disappeared following a trip to Libya in 1978.
Hassan Yaaqoub is the son of Sheikh Mohammed Yaaqoub – one of two companions who disappeared together with al-Sadr in 1978.
Hannibal was arrested for withholding information in the case.
over 9 years
everybody blocks roads nowadays when they don't accept facts ...
That's what hezbollah MPs and ministers do: they use their positions to kidnap people, manufacture drugs and sell them, launder money, smuggle and trade in weapons, sell stolen cars, counterfeit medicine, etc. Resistance is a commercial profitable enterprise after all.