BEIRUT: Rifaat Eid, a leading member of the pro-Assad Arab Democratic Party was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment Monday for inciting clashes in the northern city of Tripoli, judicial sources said.

According to the source, Lebanon’s Military Court sentenced the fugitive to life in prison and hard labor after he was convicted of provoking strife between the Tripoli neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabanneh. The ADP’s politburo chief was also convicted of distributing arms and inciting murder.

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