The state-run National News Agency reported on Tuesday that al-Beddawi residents briefly blocked the highway linking Tripoli to Akkar district in protest of transferring an inmate to the Zgharta facility.
Several persons opened fire in the air in an attempt to block the road.
The prisoner was being transferred from Tripoli's al-Qobbeh prison to the Zgharta prison, is charged with killing a person from al-Hamza family in Zgharta.