Hezbollah Denies Role in Jailbreak during Egypt Uprising

Hezbollah denied it had role in Wadi al-Natroun jailbreak that led to the release of several prisoners held by the regime of the toppled president Hosni Mubarak during the Egyptian uprising in 2011.

In a statement released by Hezbollah’s Media Relations, the party said: “Hezbollah would like to affirm it had no role at all with that events which led to the release of prisoners, among them Mujahid Sami Shehab, from Wadi al-Natroun Prison during the January 25 uprising.”

Earlier on Sunday, Egyptian court asked the Interpol to “arrest Hamas and Hezbollah militants who along with Muslim Brotherhood members stormed a prison in 2011 and freed 34 Islamist leaders”, news agencies reported.

As Hezbollah urged the concerned judicial authorities to check facts before pronouncing sentences, it stressed in the statement that any of its members was not involved in that operation.

Mohammad Youssef Ahmad Mansour, who went by the name Sami Shehab was sentenced to 15 years by an Egyptian court, during the rule of Mubarak, on charges of smuggling weapons into the besieged Gaza Strip.