Hizbullah Supporters Block Roads to Protest Nasrallah Comedy Sketch
A group of Hizbullah supporters took to the streets late on Saturday, burning tires and blocking roads around Beirut and east Lebanon to protest a short comedy TV program impersonating the party chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
On Saturday evening, a group of young men gathered in Msharrafieh in Beirut's southern suburbs and moves escalated afterward to burning tires and blocking roads in several areas including al-Saadiyat, Choueifat , Airport road, Spears, Bekaa, Baalbek, Brital and Douris.
They protested a short comedy sketch that was broadcast on a Saudi-owned TV station, MBC, which impersonated their leader.
The army issued a statement late on Saturday, reassuring that the situation was controlled and that it had set up checkpoints and deployed troops to several areas around Beirut to contain the protests.
On Sunday, several roads were also blocked in various regions before being reopened by security forces.
During the day, protesters blocked the Taalbaya-Chtaura road in the Bekaa and the Choueifat-Kfarshima and Choueifat-Khalde roads outside the capital. And in the evening they blocked the Mar Mikhail Church-Shiyyah-Hazmieh road in Beirut's suburbs and security forces were trying to reopen it.
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