Al-Jadeed television
station, on Monday, broadcast images showing Shadi al-Mawlawi’s arrest. Mawlawi
was “lured” by Lebanon’s General Security to a social services center in North
Lebanon’s Tripoli.
The footage, captured by surveillance cameras, showed the moment when members of the Lebanese General Security entered the waiting room of the social services center, which belongs to Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi, and arrested Mawlawi.
The footage, captured by surveillance cameras, showed the moment when members of the Lebanese General Security entered the waiting room of the social services center, which belongs to Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi, and arrested Mawlawi.
Deadly clashes first broke out on Saturday between the Islamists and the army
as young demonstrators, sympathizers of the revolt in Syria, tried to approach
the offices of the pro-President Bashar al-Assad Syrian Social Nationalist
Party.
About 100 young men blocked
the northern and southern roads into Tripoli, demanding the release of Mawlawi,
who – according to a statement from the security services – was arrested as
part of an "investigation into his ties to a terrorist organization.”
Syrian authorities have
repeatedly charged that arms and fighters are being smuggled in from Lebanon to
help the rebels fighting to overthrow Assad.
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