The state-run national News Agency reported on Tuesday that State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr charged fugitive Fadel Chaker with sectarian incitement through Facebook. It added that he was also charged with defaming the Lebanese army and “ruining the ties of Lebanon with another country.” Saqr referred the file to First Military Examining Magistrate Riyad Abou Ghida. Shaker had fled justice more than a year ago following clashes that erupted in June 2013 in Sidon’s Abra, between the army and supporters of Salafist fugitive cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir. The singer-turned Salafist Chaker was born to a Palestinian mother and Lebanese father in the country's biggest Palestinian refugee camp, Ain el-Helweh. Judicial authorities have issued a detention order for Asir and 123 of his supporters, including Chaker, whose brother was killed in battles with the army in Sidon in 2013.