Syria releases Lebanese paper's correspondent

Syrian security services Monday released a Lebanese journalist they had arrested last week for allegedly publishing "false information."

Sources close to the issue in Syria told the Lebanese Daily Star that Abboud, a correspondent for the Lebanese daily al-Nahar "was released around 8 pm and he himself was not entirely sure why he had been arrested."

"Security services on Thursday arrested the writer and journalist Shaban Abboud who was taken before a military court after publishing an article," the Syrian Human Rights Organization (SHRO) said in a statement.

Syrian human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni said Abboud, a Syrian, was "accused of publishing false information. A week before he published an article about nominations within the security and intelligence services."