Beirut, Lebanon — The health of Hannibal Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been deteriorating since he started a hunger strike in a Lebanese jail to protest his years-long imprisonment without trial.
Hannibal, 47, has “spasms in his muscles, hands and legs, dizziness and headaches, and prior medical problems in his spine and hips deteriorated because of the strike,” one of his lawyers told Al Jazeera by phone on Thursday, six days into his hunger strike, adding that a doctor has been checking his health every day.
