BEIRUT:
Hezbollah MP for Baalbek, Nawwar Sahili, called this week’s release of nine
Islamist detainees a “positive but small step” and said that more needs to be
done to free the remaining 98 similar prisoners, detained after the 2007
clashes between Fatah al-Islam members and the Lebanese Army in the Palestinian
refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared.
“We
renew our demand today ... to put an end to this case by releasing those who
have been there for a long time, especially as some have been detained for
longer than the sentence they would have received had their case gone to trial
and they had been convicted,” he said in a statement.
He said the detainees were
victims of “political exploitation” and blamed previous governments for the
delay in releasing them, adding, “they put pressure on the judiciary to keep
the detainees in prison without trial, which we have always rejected and
condemned.”
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Jun-22/177715-hezbollah-mp-release-of-islamists-positive-step.ashx#axzz1yLGY74xp
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