Tripoli (VOA-islam.com): Lebanese authorities have arrested Muslim leader Sheikh Omar Bakri in the northern city of Tripoli, a day after a military court sentenced (in absentia) to life imprisonment to the amir al-Muhajiroun group is.

Omar Bakri, who on Friday said yesterday that he will not spend a single day behind bars has been arrested at his home by intelligence agents patrol and Internal Security Force, said seoran security official told AFP news agency on Sunday.

Omar Bakri military court sentenced on Thursday to charges of terrorism and sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labor. Omar Bakri told AFP that after 15 verdict he would appeal.

He was among 54 people who were sentenced as part of an ongoing trial against those allegedly involved in fighting "three months" between Fatah Islam and the Lebanese army in 2007 in pengungsu camp Nahr al-Bared Palestinian.

Bakri was sentenced for being members of "armed groups whose objective was to conduct terrorist actions and plans to kill Lebanese army '

This cleric has dual citizenship namely Syria and Lebanon, he had lived in England for 20 years and once led the organization of Al Muhajiroun, which is now disbanded.

Source:voa-islam.com