A Sunni Salafi cleric revealed on Thursday that the Sunni Islamist detainees who were arrested following Sidon’s Abra incidents were being bullied by other detainees who belong to a different sect.
However, the sheikh did not specify in his interview with NOW which sect the alleged harassers belong to.
He revealed that the blocs in which the Abra Islamists are detained are dominated by prisoners who belong to a different sect from that of the Islamists.
The Salafi sheikh also noted that other Islamist detainees in the prison’s bloc B staged a protest demanding that the Abra Islamist prisoners from other blocs be transferred to bloc B.
“The prisoners protested and refused to enter their cells. They stayed in the courtyard to demand that the Abra Islamist prisoners be transferred from other blocs to bloc B,” he said.
In June, the LAF seized control of radical Sunni cleric Ahmad al-Assir’s headquarters after his supporters battled the army for two days, resulting in the death of 18 soldiers.
After the end of the battle, several Sunni religious and political leaders have claimed that Hezbollah members were fighting alongside the army against Assir.
Assir has been at the center of controversy for months, notably after causing disturbances in Sidon following claims that gunmen affiliated with the Shiite party Hezbollah were deployed in apartments near his mosque in Abra.
He was virtually unknown before the Syrian uprising began in March 2011, but gained a name for himself with public and increasingly vitriolic criticism of the powerful Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah.
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