Industry Minister Hussein Hajj Hasan Wednesday requested from the family and supporters of former MP Hasan Yaacoub to end their protest outside Hezbollah offices south of Beirut, a day after setting up tents to protest the latter's detention.

Hajj Hasan, a Hezbollah official, met with Yaacoub's brother and mother, Ali and Imtithal, along with Hezbollah's deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem at the party's parliamentary bloc headquarters in Haret Hreik, after Qassem received a hand written letter from Imtithal asking to meet with Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah over her son's case.

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