Lebanese military court orders release of singer Fadel Shaker in four cases

The Permanent Military Court in Lebanon, presided over by Brig. Gen. Wassim Fayyad, approved the release of singer Fadel Shaker in four security-related cases, including the high-profile Abra file. The court ordered his release in three of those cases upon payment of bail and referred the files to the Government Commissioner to the Military Court, Judge Claude Ghanem, who endorsed the decision while continuing to review the Abra case to determine whether he will appeal.

Shaker surrendered to the Lebanese army in April last year at the entrance to the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in connection with the 2013 clashes in the Abra area near Sidon. A prominent early Arab backer of the 2011 Syrian uprising, he later retired from music and dedicated his public profile to humanitarian causes and support for the Syrian revolution, as reported by SANA