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.
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