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May 18, 2012

Now Lebanon - Judge denies request to release Mawlawi, May 18 2012


Government Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr denied on Friday the request to release Lebanese citizen Shadi al-Mawlawi, who was being investigated for “belonging to an armed terrorist group,” the National News agency reported.
Saqr also referred the request to Military Investigation Judge Nabil Wehbe who also denied it and appointed a second trial to be held on May 22.
Deadly clashes broke out on Saturday in Tripoli between 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.
The clashes followed the arrest of Mawlawi by the General Security at a social services center that belongs to Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi. After his arrest, 100 young men blocked the northern and southern roads into Tripoli.
The ensuing sectarian clashes left nine people dead and some 50 wounded.

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=397814#

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