Minors Held for Removing FPM Banner Released
Five youngsters including several minors were released at dawn Sunday after being arrested around midnight for removing a banner hung outside the offices of the Free Patriotic Movement in the Upper Metn town of Hammana.
The National News Agency said residents of the area were rallying outside the Hammana police station when the five were released.
Protest movement activists had reacted angrily overnight on social media, after initial reports said minors were being held for “tearing up a picture of President Michel Aoun.” It later turned out that the reports were baseless.
"Down with the regime that arrests children," said one user.
"When a 12-year-old child manages to shake the state's throne, you know the state is corrupt," another wrote.
In a statement, the FPM warned that “such actions are unfamiliar and create undesired tensions in this region,” urging all sides and parties in the region to “preserve security and stability.”
It also stressed its keenness on “coexistence in Mount Lebanon.”
Security forces released the five detainees after midnight after taking a statement from them, the Committee of Lawyers for the Defense of Protesters said.
The army said two of the children were 15 years old, while the third was 12.
During the first month of demonstrations, security forces arrested 300 people including 12 minors who were released within the next 24 or 48 hours, according to the lawyers' committee.
But 11 people -- including two minors -- remain in detention accused of attacking a hotel in the southern city of Tyre in the first week of the uprising.
24 November 2019, 12:56
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Minors Held for Removing FPM Banner
But the armed thungs that attacked protesters in Riad Al Solh and Martyrs square were never arrested.
Prime example of a totalitarian and police regime!
24 November 2019, 13:32
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the FPM warned that “such actions are unfamiliar and create undesired tensions in this region,” urging all sides and parties in the region to “preserve security and stability.”
Strange, but when the shia of hezbollah removed the Lebanese flag and replaced it with hezbollah flag the FPM did not issue a statement. Could it be they are lackeys of hezbollah with double standards?
24 November 2019, 13:33
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The boys aged 12 and 15 were paid by the American/Israeli/Saudi alliance and their embassies in Lebanon.
24 November 2019, 14:26
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"the FPM warned that such actions are unfamiliar"
Wrong! They are very familiar. They even occurred a few year back during a demonstration the FPM was a participant in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsoZIPsbuHc
24 November 2019, 15:53
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Did Khamanei pay you to include those two dead shia iranian terrorists in your avatar?
24 November 2019, 17:52
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I agree with part of your statement. Neither I nor Hezballah get paid to believe in what we do. But unlike Hezballah I alone decide what to believe in. For this I use what I know, what I learned, my mind and my understanding to form these beliefs. I know, this hard for someone like you to grasp. The facts are Hezballah do not believe in anything, they are told what they should believe in. Nasrallah outlined in many of his speeches how Hezballah makes the decisions. When they make any decision, follow any path etc., they don't rely of their own thinking, or their know how, understanding, knowledge, or their education, etc. They rely on their maraje3, their foukaha2 ie the Iranian Khamenei. This is the idiot admitting he's too dumb to make any decision on his own.
25 November 2019, 02:10
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When hizbollah stayed in tants for many months downtown few yrs ago, no one destroyed and burned their tants, but when at least 2/3 of the country is against their will, and plant the tants, hizbollah and if it was not for the army they would have used their arms against the 2/3 of the country.
