Daily Star: Lebanese MP urges Syria to free Lebanese detainees

Reform and Change bloc MP, Ghassan Mokheiber, told a Saudi Arabian based web site that Syria may be brought before the International Criminal Court if it fails to release the Lebanese detainees held in its prisons.

"Syrian authorities have not shown any serious cooperation with the families of the detainees or with the Lebanese-Syrian joint committee" tasked with resolving the issue, Mokheiber said in an interview with Elaph on Wednesday, the Daily Star reported on Wednesday

"The issue of the detainees should be discussed by the Lebanese and Syrian governments," the MP said, adding that tense relations should not prevent the two countries from resolving the matter.

He said that he hoped Syria and Lebanon would "turn a new page" in their bilateral relations.