US EditionPop star turned militant Fadel Shaker surrenders to Lebanese military
Fadel Shaker surrendered after 12 years on the run and faces new charges for crimes against the military following deadly 2013 clashes, officials said.
- On Saturday, Fadel Shaker surrendered to Lebanese military intelligence after hiding more than 12 years, and was taken into custody at an entrance to Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon.
- Fadel Shaker fell under the influence of hard-line Sunni cleric Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir and later said he would give up singing to become closer to God; the 2013 June shootout in Sidon killed at least 18 soldiers.
- Legal and public-profile developments preceded his surrender as Fadel Shaker was tried in absentia in 2020 for supporting a `terrorist group` and released a viral song with son Mohammed that got over 113 million YouTube views.
- Officials say his prior sentences will be dropped once Lebanese authorities hold him and he will be questioned as they prepare to try him on military-related charges.
- Given denials and ongoing weapons collection, Fadel Shaker had denied involvement in the Sidon clashes and his handover coincides with the Lebanese army collecting arms from Lebanon's 12 Palestinian refugee camps.
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Lebanese artist Fadel Shaker ended his long years of isolation by voluntarily surrendering himself to Lebanese Army Intelligence inside the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp on Saturday evening. This surprising move ended more than ten years of absence from the artistic and media scene.
According to Lebanese media, on Saturday evening, the Lebanese artist Fadl Shakir surrendered himself to the Lebanese Army at the Al-Hasabah checkpoint, one of the entrances to the Ayn al-Hilweh camp in the south of the country. In a previous statement, media journalist Hussein Khreis, who is close to Shaker, said to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Nahar, that the Lebanese artist "has already surrendered himself to a Lebanese Army intelligence force a…
Fadel Shaker surrenders himself to the Lebanese Army - Egypt Independent
Lebanese singer Fadel Shaker surrendered himself to the Lebanese Army on Saturday in the south, at the entrance to the Ain al-Hilweh camp, Lebanese news agencies revealed. A force from the Army Intelligence was dispatched to the entrance of the camp to receive him, transporting him to Zgheib military barracks in Sidon and later to Beirut. Lebanese reports revealed that officials in the Defense Ministry coordinated, through intermediaries, the ex…
Fald Shaker, a popular singer born of Palestinian mother and Lebanese father, was accused of participating in 2013 in comparisons in Sidon, south of Lebanon, who opposed the radical jacket Ahmad al-Assir and its supporters to the Lebanese army, where 17 soldiers were killed. Ahmad al-Assir's party, Shaker committed any involvement in the confrontations and hid himself in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, near Saida (s), the largest …
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