Conflict Incident Report

A group of activists from the Change is Coming campaign Thursday protested outside the Beirut Military Tribunal in solidarity with six anti-government advocates who were summoned for interrogation. A judicial source told The Daily Star that footage from the Oct. 8 protest in Downtown Beirut showed the six were involved in the riot against police. They were charged without having been arrested. Dozens of protesters and policemen were injured as what started as a peaceful mass rally turned into violent clashes after activists partially dismantled the barbed wire fence around Lebanon’s An-Nahar newspaper building in Downtown Beirut. The fence had been constructed in order to prevent demonstrators from accessing Parliament headquarters in Nejmeh Square. The six men will be interrogated by Military Investigative Judge Riad Abu Ghayda Thursday, according to the source. Two key activists arrested during the latest in a series of anti-corruption protests received a hero’s welcome Monday after being freed from jail following 11 days behind bars.