Location on the Lebanese territory

 Families of Islamist prisoners staged protests across Lebanon Friday, urging officials to speed up the issuance of an amnesty law.

The protests, which included demonstrations in Sidon, Baalbek and Tripoli, also demanded that the amnesty be “all-inclusive,” after President Michel Aoun affirmed Thursday that such amnesty would not include those involved in the killing of Army personnel.

An Ogero employee Thursday held a bottle of gasoline over his head and threatened to set himself on fire if employees’ demands continued to go unanswered, at a protest against wage stagnation in the southern city of Sidon.

The man in question was calmed and ultimately prevented from setting himself on fire by fellow employees of the state-run telecommunications company.

Ogero employees have for months been holding protests across Lebanon, demanding that their wages be raised in accordance with a public sector salary scale law passed by Parliament last July.

A Hizbullah supporter was handed over to security forces Tuesday evening after he shot and wounded two men during a personal dispute in the Aley District town of Aramoun, the National News Agency said.

NNA said the shooter, identified as Hajj Abu Fadi Nael, was handed over after the Progressive Socialist Party's leadership and MP Akram Shehayyeb communicated with Hizbullah, which “lifted the political cover off” the man.

The agency identified the injured as Jawad Bou Ghannam and Yamen Malaeb, saying they were transferred to hospital with gunshot wounds to their legs.

Dozens of Progressive Socialist Party supporters protested in front of Al-Jadeed television’s headquarters in Moseitbeh Monday night, after a comedy skit recently aired by the network mocked PSP chief Walid Jumblatt.

“With our souls and our blood, we support you Walid,” protestors chanted. An unidentified spokesperson for the demonstration called on Al-Jadeed to uphold higher standards as a media outlet.