Riot police briefly clashed Monday in Beirut with hundreds of protesters demanding the release of anti-government activists detained following clashes in northern Lebanon late last month.

The protest outside Lebanon's Military Court in Beirut began peacefully when scores of demonstrators gathered before they later cut a major road.

Riot police used clubs to disperse the nearly 300 protesters who chanted pro-democracy slogans and the situation calmed down shortly afterward.

The Lebanese army said it detained 17 people following last month's protests in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon's second largest.

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