Military Investigative Judge Nabil Wehbe interrogated on Friday two detainees from Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood and issued two arrest warrants against them.
He also issued arrest warrants in absentia against 12 individuals. This comes as the military court issued an arrest warrant in absentia against Arab Democratic Party official Refaat Eid Thursday.
The state-run National News Agency also reported that Judge Saqr charged 15 Lebanese and Syrian suspects in the case of Eid.
He also filed lawsuits against 15 people from Tripoli’s Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood on charges of forming armed groups, shooting at security apparatuses members and possession of arms.
On Saturday, State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged 12 people, including Eid, with belonging to an armed group, possession of arms and inciting sedition.
The state-run National News Agency reported that the 12 men were charged with belonging to an armed terrorist group involved in battles between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh in the northern city of Tripoli.
They were also charged with the possession of arms and inciting sectarian sedition.
Last week, security forces kicked off the security plan in Tripoli, seizing arms depots and detaining wanted suspects, who are involved in security chaos in the area.
At least 30 people have been killed in the past month alone in the northern coastal city of Tripoli in clashes between Sunni Muslims and members of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam to which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad also belongs. The rebels fighting Assad's forces are mostly Sunni.
Of the 12 people charged by Lebanon's military prosecutor, 11 have fled and have not been apprehended, including Refaat Eid, who draws support largely from Tripoli's Alawites.
Eid's house was among those raided when the army deployed in Tripoli in force for his suspected involvement in the August twin bombings that targeted Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli and which left several people killed and others wounded.
On Friday, Lebanon's military prosecutor charged two suspected Lebanese armed men with belonging to a Syrian Sunni Islamist rebel group tied to al Qaeda.
Lebanon, still dealing with the fallout of its own 1975-90 civil war, has struggled to contain Syria-related violence inside its borders. Over 150,000 people have died in Syria's three-year-old conflict and millions more have fled their homes.
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