Anti-confessional Activists Protest Fuel Prices Rise Near Parliament
Anti-confessional regime activists protested the rise in fuel prices and bad living conditions outside the parliament building in downtown Beirut on Thursday.
The protestors blocked the road near Riad al-Solh square for 30 minutes before dispersing.
The activists have been holding routine demonstrations against the country's confessional system which is rooted in a 1943 power-sharing agreement along confessional lines adopted after the country won its independence from France.
They have marched on several occasions against the power-sharing arrangement which has been blamed for most of Lebanon’s problems over the decades, including corruption, cronyism and above all the devastating civil war (1975-1990) and subsequent crises.
During Thursday’s protest, the organizers read a statement urging all members of the Lebanese civil society to rise against the status quo.
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