REPORT: Tripoli’s Allouki sent back to prison after undergoing medical tests

The state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported on Wednesday that Ziad Allouki, one of Tripoli's axis leaders, was taken back to the Roumieh prison after undergoing medical tests.

In this regard, the news agency denied that Ziad Allouki had a heart attack, pointing out that his health deteriorated as a result of a hunger strike.

As soon as news broke out on the state of his health a number of protesters blocked various roads in Tripoli with burning tires, demanding his release from the Roumieh prison.

NNA added that hand grenades were tossed near the Naseri Mosque, pointing that Lebanese Armed Forces were deployed in the northern Lebanese city to contain the situation.

Ziad Allouki, who is reportedly a local militia commander from Tripoli’s Bab al-Tabbaneh, handed himself over to the Lebanese Army Intelligence on Thursday the 8th of May.

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.

In April, the Lebanese army started implementing, in cooperation with the security apparatuses, a security plan in Lebanon's northern city.

The comes after the cabinet tasked the army and security forces with controlling the security situation in Tripoli and the eastern Bekaa Valley in areas bordering Syria.

Disputes from neighboring Syria's civil war frequently inflame sectarian grievances in Tripoli.

These clashes pit gunmen from both the mostly Sunni Bab Tabbaneh district that supports the uprising in Syria, and the Jabal Mohsen district which mostly comprises residents of Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, a Shiite Islam offshoot.