A radical Islamic preacher who was last week sentenced to life behind bars for terrorism charges has selected a Hizbollah leader as his defence lawyer.
Omar Bakri, who was sentenced in absentia but captured by security officials just days later in Libya, has appointed Hizbollah deputy Nawwar Sahili to represent him in a retrial.
No court date has been set yet, but under Lebanese law a retrial is necessary because the Syrian-born cleric failed to attend court.
Before he was arrested at gunpoint in Libya, he had boasted that despite the sentence he "would not spend one day” in prison.
