Calm prevailed Thursday across the streets of the northern city of Tripoli, after the families of the detainees held at Roumieh prison during Tripoli clashes delayed their movement, which was previously scheduled for today.
In this regard, sources told LBCI that concerned security officials and the detainees’ relatives held a meeting on Wednesday evening, upon which they decided to postpone the “Day of Rage” movement until next Wednesday.
In information made available, the reason behind the rescheduling is the preoccupation of the security officials with the death of the mother of the General Director of General Security Major General Abbas Ibrahim.
Accordingly, the families of the detainees issued a statement, calling on all the residents to abstain from blocking any road in the city.
The families of the detainees have been holding sit-ins and clocking roads across Tripoli for a couple of weeks, calling for their release.
The port city of Tripoli has long been a stronghold of Sunni Islamists in northern Lebanon. But the city has become increasingly volatile in recent months due to the civil war in neighboring Syria, where the Sunni majority is leading a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
Disputes from neighboring Syria's civil war frequently inflame sectarian grievances in Tripoli. These clashes pit gunmen from both the mostly Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh district and the Jabal Mohsen district which mostly comprises residents of Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, a Shiite Islam offshoot.