Detained Ziad Saleh, who is best known as Ziad Allouki, demanded Friday, during a phone call with LBCI, amnesty to all the detainees.
Earlier today, Allouki declared in an audio recording from the Roumieh prison that Tripoli’s Islamic inmates had began a hunger strike to protest over the release of former Minister Michel Samaha.
Ziad Allouki, who is reportedly a local militia commander from Tripoli’s Bab al-Tabbaneh, handed himself over to the Lebanese Army Intelligence in May 2014.
He was charged with belonging to an armed group aimed at carrying out terrorist acts as well as killing and attempting to murder Lebanese soldiers.
Yesterday, Former Information Minister Michel Samaha who is close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was released on bail after serving a jail term for smuggling explosives into Lebanon from Syria and planning attacks.
Samaha was sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison in May, having been detained since August 2012.
The Military Court released him on bail secured by LBP 150 million.