A notorious Islamist sheikh incarcerated in Roumieh Prison announced Thursday that he, along with other Islamist prisoners, had begun a hunger strike pending the approval of a general amnesty law.
In a voice recording that was shared by several local media outlets, Sheikh Khaled Hoblos said he would halt the hunger strike only once the amnesty law is signed – “or once one of the three top leaders tells everyone that there will be no general amnesty. Then we will act accordingly.”
Hoblos was arrested in April 2015 in the northern city of Tripoli in an operation that left notorious Islamist militant Osama Mansour dead.
This operation came as part of a security plan that was put in place in the city at a time when certain neighborhoods were marred by fighting that represented a spillover from the Syrian conflict.
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