Now Lebanon - Fadlallah: No one can put Sayyed in prison - September 18, 2010

Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Hassan Fadlallah told New TV on Saturday that “no one is capable of putting [former General Security chief] Jamil as-Sayyed in prison.”

Hezbollah issued a statement on Friday saying that Attorney General Judge Said Mirza’s request to summon Sayyed was “political par excellence,” calling for a reversal of the judiciary's decision to summon Sayyed for questioning.

“Sayyed has the right to live with dignity after the unjust political decision [to imprison him],” Fadlallah said, adding that Hezbollah wants the Lebanese judiciary to be fair and transparent.

Sayyed was detained from 2005 to 2009 on suspicion of involvement in the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. In April 2009, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) ordered his release due to lack of evidence.

Sayyed said on Sunday that “[Prime Minister Saad Hariri] should take a lie detector test to prove he did not support or fund false witnesses in the STL,” investigating the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri, and vowed to take his rights “with his own hands.”

“The Lebanese judiciary should penalize the witnesses who gave false testimony [to the international commission investigating the 2005 Hariri assassination],” Fadlallah added.

-NOW Lebanon