Lebanese demonstrators set up barricades and parked cars across key roads on Monday to protest corruption and press their demands for a radical overhaul of the political system.

The protesters defied pleas from top leaders and sought to keep Lebanon on lockdown for a 12th consecutive day by cutting off some of the main thoroughfares, including the main north-south highway, AFP reported.

They are demanding more freedom, better services and an end to corruption and sectarian politics, among other things.

The unprecedented mobilization was sparked by a proposed tax on voice calls via messaging apps on October 17 and has morphed into a massive grassroots push to drive out a political elite which has remained virtually unchanged in three decades.

Source: RT