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Lebanese Army:
من عانق الموت حبّاً بالحياة لن يعانقه الفناء
من تحدّى الزّوال، ولد له من مرور الأجيال بقاء
من كانت كلّ حبّة من تراب وطنه حكاية مجد، سقاها بدم الفؤاد
من كانت دماء أبطاله يواقيت وقلائد، أصبحت أمسياته مرصّعة بلون الجراح
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من تحدّى الزّوال، ولد له من مرور الأجيال بقاء
من كانت كلّ حبّة من تراب وطنه حكاية مجد، سقاها بدم الفؤاد
من كانت دماء أبطاله يواقيت وقلائد، أصبحت أمسياته مرصّعة بلون الجراح
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Lebanese Detainees in Syrian Prisons:
Since 1975, thousands of Lebanese citizens have been arbitrarily detained in Syrian jails. The Lebanese government has formed a committee to follow the whereabouts of those detainees.
Parents and families of people who have disappeared have filled up about 20,000 applications. Currently, non-exhaustive lists report about 300 detainees in Syrian jails, among them, 58 since 1990, including two priests and 36 soldiers from the Lebanese Army.
They have been detained by the Syrian army in Lebanon, or by Syrian allied militias in different regions of Lebanon during the war or in direct conflicts with the Lebanese army.
Even after the end of military hostilities in 1990, the Syrian army
proceeded, arbitrarily and illegally, to the arrest and transfer of many Lebanese citizens to Syrian jails.
It is known that most of these detainees are held arbitrarily, with no trial, forbidden to contact their relatives or their lawyers and regularly subjected to different ways of torture including electrical shocks, beating, deprivation of food, water and medical care.
The Syrian and the Lebanese governments kept denying the existence of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons although many testimonies, particularly from parents and families who visited them in prisons, confirm their presence. The presence of these detainees was further confirmed from different sources including members of parliament and Syrian human rights activists.
A press conference held in Paris by a Syrian ex-detainee, Mr. Nizar Nayouf, a Syrian journalist and activist for human rights in Syria, revealed the existence of hundreds of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons, as well as thousands buried in mass graves who likely died from hard torture. In the year 2000, the Lebanese government tried to force thousands of parents of detainees to sign papers admitting the death of their relatives following the appointment of a committee to inquire about Lebanese detainees by Syrian authorities,. However, in December 2000, the Syrian authorities proceeded to the release of many Lebanese detainees, thereby contradicting previous denials of the Lebanese and Syrian governments that no Lebanese detainee was in a Syrian jail.
Until today, thousands of Lebanese citizens are believed to be buried in mass graves in Syria, and an unknown number is still detained in Syrian jails. In this report, around 300 cases have been documented.
source: RCPL - Human Rights Division
Parents and families of people who have disappeared have filled up about 20,000 applications. Currently, non-exhaustive lists report about 300 detainees in Syrian jails, among them, 58 since 1990, including two priests and 36 soldiers from the Lebanese Army.
They have been detained by the Syrian army in Lebanon, or by Syrian allied militias in different regions of Lebanon during the war or in direct conflicts with the Lebanese army.
Even after the end of military hostilities in 1990, the Syrian army
proceeded, arbitrarily and illegally, to the arrest and transfer of many Lebanese citizens to Syrian jails.
It is known that most of these detainees are held arbitrarily, with no trial, forbidden to contact their relatives or their lawyers and regularly subjected to different ways of torture including electrical shocks, beating, deprivation of food, water and medical care.
The Syrian and the Lebanese governments kept denying the existence of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons although many testimonies, particularly from parents and families who visited them in prisons, confirm their presence. The presence of these detainees was further confirmed from different sources including members of parliament and Syrian human rights activists.
A press conference held in Paris by a Syrian ex-detainee, Mr. Nizar Nayouf, a Syrian journalist and activist for human rights in Syria, revealed the existence of hundreds of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons, as well as thousands buried in mass graves who likely died from hard torture. In the year 2000, the Lebanese government tried to force thousands of parents of detainees to sign papers admitting the death of their relatives following the appointment of a committee to inquire about Lebanese detainees by Syrian authorities,. However, in December 2000, the Syrian authorities proceeded to the release of many Lebanese detainees, thereby contradicting previous denials of the Lebanese and Syrian governments that no Lebanese detainee was in a Syrian jail.
Until today, thousands of Lebanese citizens are believed to be buried in mass graves in Syria, and an unknown number is still detained in Syrian jails. In this report, around 300 cases have been documented.
source: RCPL - Human Rights Division
