Qabbani:
Sit-in if judiciary continues to tarry on Islamists' trials
BEIRUT:
Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani, head of the Higher Sunni Council, urged
Muslims to hold an open-ended sit-in if the Lebanese judiciary fails to try or
release Islamists detained without charge by summer.
“We
will not accept this any longer and we call on Muslims in particular to hold a
sit-in at Riad Solh Square until all innocent detainees who have been arrested
unjustly are released; we believe that there are such people among
[Islamists],” Qabbani said during a ceremony commemorating the death of Mufti
Hasan Khaled at his residence.
He
gave the judiciary until the start of summer to try or release the 180 Islamist
detainees awaiting trial.
Interior
Minister Marwan Charbel visited Tripoli, north Lebanon, Wednesday and met with
prisoners' families, who have been blocking roads and holding an open-ended
sit-in at Nour Square. Charbel vowed to finalize the cases of their relatives.
The
prisoners were arrested on charges of fighting or aiding fighters during the
2007 armed clashes between the Lebanese Army and the Palestinian militant group
Fatah al-Islam in the refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, in the north of the
country.
During a news conference in
Tripoli, Charbel said he was confident that the judicial system would speed up
the process of holding trials for Islamist inmates.
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