The Associated Press September 15, 2019 11:05 AM
BEIRUT
The Lebanese Foreign Ministry says Ethiopia has released a Lebanese businessman who had been detained in the African nation since last week.
The ministry said Sunday that Hassan Jaber will head from Ethiopia to the African nation of Gabon and later will return to Lebanon.
On Friday, the ministry had summoned Ethiopia’s charge d’affaires demanding information about Jaber, whom it said was detained in Addis Ababa on Sept. 7.
It informed the Ethiopian diplomat that Beirut wants “clear answers” by Monday, otherwise Lebanon would take counter
Some Lebanese media outlets have speculated that Israel or the United States might have been behind Jaber’s arrest.
The ministry did not give any explanation why Jaber was held in Ethiopia.
Lebanon’s foreign ministry: Ethiopia released Lebanese businessman – Al Alarabiya 12:37
Foreign Ministry: Hassan Jaber released from detention in Ethiopia
Sun 15 Sep 2019 at 13:12
NNA – In an issued statement this morning, the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants stated that the Lebanese citizen, Hassan Mohamed Jaber, kidnapped at Addis Ababa Airport on Saturday was released this morning.
After the Ministry summoned the Ethiopian Chargé d’affaires in Beirut on Friday 13/9/2019, as directed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and after giving him until Monday, 16/9/2019 to provide the Lebanese State with the necessary information about Jaber, we were informed on Sunday that the Ethiopian authorities had released Jaber and that he would return from Ethiopia to Gabon and then to Lebanon,” the statemenmt said.