Justice Minister Salim Jreissati said on Saturday the “Lebanese people shall make apologizes to no one,” following remarks made by the interior minister asking Lebanese to apologize for “false” spy accusations made against Lebanese comedian Ziad Itani.

“The Lebanese shall make apologies to no one. It is not appropriate for any official to present electoral credentials by asking for such an apology. The declaration of innocence or conviction is the sole responsibility of the judiciary, which pronounces its verdicts alone,” Jreissati said in a tweet.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri, on an official visit to Saudi Arabia, held a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Friday evening, Hariri's media office affirmed Saturday.

Speaker Nabih Berri has assured all parties skeptical about the country's elections that the polls “are going to be staged as scheduled,” al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq on Friday said he signed a decree rendering the full-time employment for Civil Defense volunteers.

During a celebration marking International Civil Defense Day, Mashnouq said: “I kept my promise, I have signed the decree that will open the door for rendering civil defense volunteers full-timers,” stressing that “the efforts exerted by civil defense elements over the past years have not been in vain.”

Families of Islamist detainees in Roumieh prison protested on Friday against the government’s delay in signing an amnesty law and demanding the inclusion of their family members in the bill, the National News Agency said.

The Internal Security Forces managed to apprehend in the town of Halat in Mount Lebanon one of the most dangerous drug traffickers in Lebanon, the ISF said in a statement on Friday.

A Syrian man was found dead in the woodlands of Tabarja town in Keserwan district, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

The body was found shortly after midnight, NNA said.

The Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission (LAEC) has ruled out any danger to the public from a metal cylinder containing a "radioactive substance" that was found on Ouzai’s beach.

President Michel Aoun on Wednesday told a delegation from the families of Army martyrs that he would not sign any “general amnesty law clearing persons convicted or yet to be convicted of soldiers' murder,” the National News Agency reported.

The government is weighing a general amnesty expected to come ahead of the country's first parliamentary elections in ten years.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in Riyadh at dawn on Wednesday three months after his abrupt now-reversed resignation from the capital.

Hariri first met with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz where talks highlighted the bilateral relations between Lebanon and SA and the latest developments in Lebanon, according to Hariri's media office.