Civil Society Activists Protest by Military Court after Colleagues Denied Release from Custody
Civil society activists staged on Tuesday a sit-in by the Military Court in Beirut following the rejection of a request to release their detained colleagues.
The protesters objected to a decision by First Military Examining Magistrate Judge Riad Abou Ghida to reject a request to release five civil society detainees.
The demonstrators gathered by the Military Court and briefly blocked the road by the facility to express their condemnation of the refusal.
The detainees are Waref Suleiman, Pierre Hashash, Hussein Ibrahim, Fayez Yassine and Rami Mahfouz.
On Monday, Abou Ghida interrogated a number of detained activists, releasing five and keeping five others in custody.
Around 27 activists were arrested last week when civil society protests in downtown Beirut took a violent turn.
Civil society protests first began with the closure of the Naameh landfill in July that sparked a waste disposal crisis in Lebanon that persists to this day.
The demonstrations, which had been staged to protest the crisis, soon developed into a movement against political corruption in Lebanon.
| Copyright © 2012 Naharnet.com. All Rights Reserved. | https://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/191903 |