Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat acknowledged on Sunday the “rightful” demands of the “You Stink” civil society campaign, warning against the manipulation of the movement.

He remarked via Twitter: “The activists should be cautious of attempts to politically manipulate and hinder their movement.”

Security forces announced on Sunday that ten people were arrested following Saturday's civil society protest that took a violent turn as night set in.

The Internal Security Forces said that investigations are underway with the detainees in connection with the rioting that erupted at the end of the peaceful rally.

Government officials are carrying out the necessary preparations for Prime Minister Tammam Salam's upcoming trip to the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly set for September, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Sunday.

The officials are holding the necessary contacts with Lebanon's permanent Ambassador to the U.N. Nawwaf Salam.

The Mustaqbal Movement praised the “You Stink” civil society campaign protest that was staged on Saturday, blaming the current situation in Lebanon on the failure to elect a new president, reported al-Mustaqbal daily on Sunday.

It called in a statement on “political powers to listen carefully to the demands of the youth and immediately elect a president.”

Thousands of anti-government protesters marched on Saturday from the interior ministry in the capital's Hamra thoroughfare to downtown Beirut's Martyrs Square in an anti-government protest organized by civil society, which is frustrated with the political class.

"You Stink,” which started as an online movement, is the main activist group behind the protest.

Lebanon should form a "national commission on disappearances" to investigate those still missing since the country's civil war, a rights group said Saturday. 

On the eve of the U.N.'s International Day of the Disappeared, Human Rights Watch also called on Lebanon to prosecute recent cases of enforced disappearances on its territory and ratify the U.N.'s relevant convention.

The General Security arrested at the Rafic Hariri International Airport a Lebanese fugitive while he was trying to flee the country to Venezuela through Turkey, the state-run National News Agency reported on Saturday.

The runaway has been in hiding since 2001 trying to flee several arrest warrants including a death sentence against him.

Municipal council member of the town of Dekwaneh Antoine Sfeir, has been freed on Saturday after he was kidnapped a day earlier, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Sfeir was abducted in Dekweneh by a man from the Dandash family and has been taken to the Bekaa town of Hermel.

A man fatally shot his 24-year old son on Friday for “personal reasons,” the state-run National News Agency reported.

Moussa Terro from the Chouf town of Barja shot his son, Moustafa, Friday night for what was described as personal reasons.

Ministerial sources following up closely on the contacts between political factions said they are waiting for the initiative expected to be kicked off by Speaker Nabih Berri to hold consultations to bring the rival politicians on the dialogue table either in Ain el-Tineh or in parliament.

The Speaker is thoroughly studying the initiative and has not failed to test the waters, exploring the reactions in advance, the sources told al-Joumhouria daily on Saturday.