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Activists and family members stage a sit-in outside the Justice Palace in Beirut to demand the release of two activists detained in connection with a bank hostage situation

A number of activists and the families and friends of the detainees protested in front of the Justice Palace in Beirut on Wednesday demanding the detainees’ release, NNA and local media reported. However, the protesters did not disperse after the decision to release Zakaria and Rustom, following the referral of Zakaria to the military court as a result of an arrest warrant reportedly issued against him in absentia.

Protesters stage a sit-in in front of the Kadisha electricity company in Tripoli over power and water cuts

Protesters decried the water shortages in Tripoli by holding a sit-in outside Kadisha electricity company. The city’s hydraulic water pumping stations do not supply water after a fuel shortage forced their shutdown.

Protesters block the road around caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati's house in Mina over deteriorating socioeconomic living conditions and power cuts

Protesters blocked the road around caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati's house in Mina, Tripoli Friday evening, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent in the North. Demonstrators blocked the road with burning tires to protest deteriorating living conditions and electricity cuts in the region, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent.

Protesters block the Beddawi highway over deteriorating socioeconomic living conditions and water shortages

Demonstrators blocked the Beddawi highway in North Lebanon on Monday morning to protest deteriorating living conditions and water shortages in the area, the state-run National News Agency reported.

وطنية - البداوي - عمد عدد من الاهالي على قطع الطريق الدولي في البداوي بالعوائق وحاويات النفابات احتجاجاً على تردي الاوضاع المعيشية وانقطاع المياه منذ اسابيع عن المنطقة. وتسبب قطع الطريق بازدحام خانق في المنطقة وعلى الطرقات الفرعية التي جرى تحويل السير اليها.

Protesters stage a sit-in and roadblock at the Justice Palace in Beirut to demand the release of two activists detained in connection with a bank hostage situation

The Lebanese Army arrested protesters after tensions escalated at a demonstration outside the Justice Palace Monday evening. Protesters were calling for the release of two activists who were arrested for their participation in last Wednesday’s Blom Bank holdup. Protesters blocked a road near the Justice Palace in Beirut, decrying the arrest of Abdel Rahman Zakaria and Mohammad Rustom, who aided Sali Hafez as she held up a Blom Bank in Beirut’s Sodeco neighborhood. 

Protesters block Bireh road in Akkar to demand the release of two activists detained in connection with a bank hostage situation

In Bireh, Akkar, other protesters blocked a road on Monday morning in support of the two activists, the state-run National News Agency reported. "The road will remain blocked until the activists are released," the protesters said. Activists and friends of Zakaria and Rustom also closed down public administrations in Halba on Monday afternoon, including the Serail, governorate offices, personal status departments, religious and civil court, and Liban Post offices, according to the National News Agency.

Protesters demonstrate outside a Blom Bank branch in Halba to demand the release of two activists detained in connection with a bank hostage situation

A few dozen protesters demonstrated Sunday in front of a Blom Bank branch in Halba in North Lebanon against the arrest of two activists who came to the aid of the depositor Sali Hafez when he held up a branch of the same bank in Sodeco, Beirut, on Wednesday, in order to recover her own money, L'Orient Today's correspondent in North Lebanon reported. According to his information, the demonstrators gathered in front of the homes of activists Abdel Rahman Zakaria and Mohammad Rustom and then moved towards the branch of Blom Bank in Halba.

Jabal Mohsen residents march over the death of three young men

خرج بعض الشبان في ​جبل محسن​ ب​مسيرة​ غاضبة تخللها إطلاق للرصاص وذلك استنكارا ورفضا لحادثة مقتل الشبان الثلاثة في ​طرابلس​، وخصوصا إبن جبل محست محمود خضر.

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