Former Mufti for Rashaya affairs Sheikh Bassam al-Tarras was released at 02:00 am after he was briefly detained by General Security forces on security suspicion.
Following the arrest on Sunday night, a number of Muslim scholars held a protest outside Dar al-Fatwa in Bar Elias and in Aisha Bakkar in Beirut to call for his release.
Sources had told LBCI on Sunday night that the investigations showed that Sheikh al-Tarras was involved in the bomb explosion that targeted the Ksara roundabout in Zahle, killing one woman and injuring several others.