Lebanon: Protests after Hezbollah leaders' photos displayed at university

Violent clashes erupted yesterday between students at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in the capital Beirut after Hezbollah supporters raised photos of some of the group’s leaders, including Imad Mughniyeh, Ragheb Harb and Abbas Al-Musawi.

Sources told local media that the photos sparked “violent clashes between students who support Hezbollah and those against the movement,” adding that the university security force had intervened to stop the brawls.

The university management said the unrest erupted in a “street adjacent to the university wall and not inside our campus,” stressing that any partisan activity was “prohibited on the university’s campuses.”

Its statement called on the local media to be “more accurate in this difficult phase that Lebanon is witnessing, especially in terms of preserving the university’s reputation.”

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