Judge Saqr Appeals Release of ex-Mufti Tarras

State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr appealed a decision to release Muslim cleric Sheikh Bassam Tarras over links to a terror group, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

First Military Investigative Judge Riad Abou Ghaida questioned the ex-Mufti Tarras Monday and released him on travel ban, NNA said.

But Judge Saqr, who charged Tarras last week with communicating with the Islamic State group militants, has appealed the decision before the Military Court.

In September, the General Security held Sheikh al-Tarras briefly in accusations of meeting Islamic State members and the mastermind of the Ksara attack during a visit to Turkey.

Tarras was rearrested early in October after a brief detention before Eid al-Adha, in the case of the Ksara bombing that rocked the city of Zahle in August.