Bassam Agha, vice-president of the Change movement, Eddy Abillamaa, former LF MP, Elie Mahfoud, president of the Change movement, and Claude Hayek, lawyer within this party (from left to right). (Credit: Claude Assaf)
The fall of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8, and the immediate release of thousands of detainees from Syrian prisons, has rekindled hopes in Lebanon that the Syrian government will be held accountable for the decades-long imprisonment of Lebanese nationals, hundreds of whom continue to be forcibly disappeared.Former MP Eddy Abillamaa, representing the Lebanese Forces (LF), and the Head of the Change Movement Elie Mahfoud went to the Justice Palace in Beirut on Wednesday to revive a complaint. The latter was filed by LF-affiliated attorneys with the Cassation Public Prosecutor’s Office in 2020 on behalf of nine former detainees and four relatives of persons who forcibly disappeared in Syria. The two attorneys also called for an investigation to be opened into the judicial notification they had submitted in 2021 with...
The fall of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8, and the immediate release of thousands of detainees from Syrian prisons, has rekindled hopes in Lebanon that the Syrian government will be held accountable for the decades-long imprisonment of Lebanese nationals, hundreds of whom continue to be forcibly disappeared.Former MP Eddy Abillamaa, representing the Lebanese Forces (LF), and the Head of the Change Movement Elie Mahfoud went to the Justice Palace in Beirut on Wednesday to revive a complaint. The latter was filed by LF-affiliated attorneys with the Cassation Public Prosecutor’s Office in 2020 on behalf of nine former detainees and four relatives of persons who forcibly disappeared in Syria. The two attorneys also called for an investigation to be opened into the judicial notification they had submitted in 2021 with...
