Report: Judiciary to Release New Group of Islamists within Two Days

The Lebanese Judiciary will release within two days a new group of Islamists, who are detained in Roumieh prison, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Sources told the daily that the prisoners will be released by Thursday.

The National News Agency reported later that 81 Islamists submitted their release requests.

Last week, reports said that authorities will release fourteen Islamists but only nine were discharged from the prison.

The judiciary is exerting efforts to speed up the legal process of around 180 Islamists after their relatives and supporters launched sit-ins in the northern city of Tripoli demanding their release.

The Islamists were detained on charges of fighting alongside Fatah al-Islam terrorist network or helping it in its gunbattles with the Lebanese army in 2007 at the Nahr al-Bared northern Palestinian refugee camp.