📰 1 source 3 articles · 20 Oct 2026, 17:08 → 2 hours ago

Khaled Ouraimit released after nearly ten months in detention

Lawyer Ayman Jazini announced the release of his client Sheikh Khaled Ouraimit, following a decision on 19 October by the Criminal Court in Beirut, headed by Judge Bilal Dannawi, to release him without bail and without relying on the general amnesty law. After his release, Ouraimit made his first media appearance, speaking about the length of his detention in the "Abu Omar" file, describing his experience as a "great wound" and a "temporary death", and alleging that a security and political file had been fabricated against him.

📍 Where things stand: Khaled Ouraimit is out of detention without bail and without reliance on the general amnesty law, and has begun giving his account of the case after his release.

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20 Oct 2026, 17:08 Lawyer Ayman Jazini, Khaled Ouraimit's attorney, said his client was released without relying on the amnesty law.
20 Oct 2026, 18:54 His attorney Ayman Jazini confirmed that the Criminal Court in Beirut, headed by Judge Bilal Dannawi, agreed on 19 October to release him without bail and without relying on the general amnesty law. In his first appearance after leaving detention, Sheikh Khaled Ouraimit spoke of nine months and twenty days spent in custody in the "Abu Omar" file, describing his experience as a "great wound" and a "temporary death", and praising the conduct of the security team.
20 Oct 2026, 23:13 In his first media appearance after leaving prison, Sheikh Khaled Ouraimit alleged that a security and political file was fabricated to justify his arrest, linking this to collusion by individuals with what he described as a smuggling mafia that funded a media campaign to distort his image, and saying the file carried political dimensions accompanied by religious cover, while his attorney Ayman Jazini stressed that the release decision did not rely on the amnesty law.

Timeline written by AI from the sources below; updated as new reports arrive.

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