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Saturday, July 17, 2010
July 17, 2010 - L'Orient Le Jour - Quid de la question des détenus libanais en Syrie...?
La Fondation des droits de l'homme et des droits humanitaires (FDHDH) a publié hier un communiqué dans lequel elle estime que la visite du Premier ministre Saad Hariri en Syrie constitue une opportunité pour la partie libanaise pour rappeler à ses interlocuteurs syriens la nécessité de trouver un règlement au dossier des détenus libanais dans les prisons syriennes. Le texte relève que les atermoiements de l'État sur ce plan et ses hésitations à prendre les mesures nécessaires ouvrent grande la porte devant la communauté internationale pour qu'elle se saisisse de cette affaire.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
July 7, 2010 - Naharnet - Lebanese Shiite Authorities Rejected Moussa's Mediation in Sadr Disappearance Case
Libyan leader Moammer Gadhafi has reportedly handed over to Arab League chief Amr Moussa an investigation file on the disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr.
A high-level Libyan source told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published Wednesday that Gadhafi asked Moussa to convince Shiite authorities in Lebanon to cooperate with Tripoli's efforts to unveil the fate of al-Sadr.
The source said Libyan investigation revealed that al-Sadr left Tripoli to Rome in 1978. The Lebanese Shiite religious leader flew to Tripoli for a week of talks with Libyan officials. He was never seen or heard from again.
The source said that some Shiite parties in Lebanon reject reaching a political settlement with Libya over the issue. He told Asharq al-Awsat that Gadhafi, who is holding the rotating presidency of the Arab Summit, wants to benefit from his post to settle lingering disputes with Lebanon's Shiites.
However, Arab sources close to the Shiites said most leaderships have rejected Moussa's mediation.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
July 6, 2010 - Now Lebanon - Amnesty International: At least 52 missing since 2008 Syria prison riot
More than 50 prisoners are still missing since riots at Syria's Saydnaya prison two years ago led to the deaths of at least 17 prisoners and five military police, Amnesty International said on Monday.
In a report marking the second anniversary of the July 5, 2008 riots at the prison north of Damascus, AI said it was stepping up a campaign "to uncover the truth about all of Saydnaya’s missing prisoners."
The Syrian authorities have blamed inmates for provoking the riots, for which a casualty toll was never released.
The London-based group said at least 52 detainees have gone missing since the riots and that "18 of the prisoners are victims of enforced disappearance, as defined by international law."
Their families and lawyers had been denied access to them and their fate is unknown, it added.
-AFP/NOW Lebanon
In a report marking the second anniversary of the July 5, 2008 riots at the prison north of Damascus, AI said it was stepping up a campaign "to uncover the truth about all of Saydnaya’s missing prisoners."
The Syrian authorities have blamed inmates for provoking the riots, for which a casualty toll was never released.
The London-based group said at least 52 detainees have gone missing since the riots and that "18 of the prisoners are victims of enforced disappearance, as defined by international law."
Their families and lawyers had been denied access to them and their fate is unknown, it added.
-AFP/NOW Lebanon
Thursday, July 1, 2010
July 1, 2010 - Daily Star - Beirut lodges complaint with UN over abduction of shepherd
BEIRUT: Lebanon has lodged a complaint with the UN Security Council over Israel’s abduction of a shepherd from what it says was Lebanese territory at the weekend, a Foreign Ministry source said Wednesday.
“Lebanon complained to the Security Council over the abduction of Lebanese citizen Imad Hassan Atwi by Israeli enemy troops,” the source said on condition of anonymity.
The complaint letter said Atwi had been taken “from the outskirts of the town of Sedana between Shebaa and Kfar Shuba … in blatant violation of Resolution 1701.”
Security Council Resolution 1701 brought an end to a deadly 34-day summer war in 2006 with Israel.
Resolution 1701calls for the “full respect” of the Blue Line, a UN-drawn border established after the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon in 2000 following a 22-year occupation.
Atwi, 37, disappeared on Sunday in an area where there is no barbed wire separating the Lebanese town of Shebaa from the Shebaa Farms, a disputed sliver of land on Lebanon’s southeastern border.
Israel on Monday handed the shepherd back to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), and the Lebanese Army said Atwi was immediately hospitalized for serious injuries.
UNIFIL spokesman Neeraj Singh declined to specify whether the Israeli troops had carried out an incursion into Lebanese territory, saying an investigation was underway.
Hizbullah condemned the abduction as a “Zionist hijacking of a Lebanese citizen … under the noses of United Nations troops” and held UNIFIL fully responsible.
The Shebaa Farms, a mountainous area rich in water resources and measuring 25 square kilometers, is located at the junction of southeast Lebanon, southwest Syria and northern Israel.
The area has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war and caught in a tug-of-war over ownership ever since.
Lebanon lays claim to the Farms with Syria’s backing, although Israel argues the territory is Syrian.
The United Nations has requested Lebanon provide sufficient proof of ownership.
Earlier this week, the Lebanese government sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, urging him to pressure Israel into implementing Resolution 1701.
In a letter to Ban, Lebanon said that Israel had violated its airspace 347 times since the UN chief’s last report. It added that Israel had carried out respectively 33 and 75 sea and land violations.
Total violations since the adoption of Resolution 1701 in 2006 had reached 6,945, according to the letter. Lebanon’s memo referred to increased Israeli threats to Lebanon, saying “they have reached a point of threatening full destruction of its [the country’s] infrastructure.”
Also in the letter, Lebanon urged the international community to exert all efforts to put an end to such threats that destabilize Lebanon. – AFP, with The Daily Star
“Lebanon complained to the Security Council over the abduction of Lebanese citizen Imad Hassan Atwi by Israeli enemy troops,” the source said on condition of anonymity.
The complaint letter said Atwi had been taken “from the outskirts of the town of Sedana between Shebaa and Kfar Shuba … in blatant violation of Resolution 1701.”
Security Council Resolution 1701 brought an end to a deadly 34-day summer war in 2006 with Israel.
Resolution 1701calls for the “full respect” of the Blue Line, a UN-drawn border established after the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon in 2000 following a 22-year occupation.
Atwi, 37, disappeared on Sunday in an area where there is no barbed wire separating the Lebanese town of Shebaa from the Shebaa Farms, a disputed sliver of land on Lebanon’s southeastern border.
Israel on Monday handed the shepherd back to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), and the Lebanese Army said Atwi was immediately hospitalized for serious injuries.
UNIFIL spokesman Neeraj Singh declined to specify whether the Israeli troops had carried out an incursion into Lebanese territory, saying an investigation was underway.
Hizbullah condemned the abduction as a “Zionist hijacking of a Lebanese citizen … under the noses of United Nations troops” and held UNIFIL fully responsible.
The Shebaa Farms, a mountainous area rich in water resources and measuring 25 square kilometers, is located at the junction of southeast Lebanon, southwest Syria and northern Israel.
The area has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war and caught in a tug-of-war over ownership ever since.
Lebanon lays claim to the Farms with Syria’s backing, although Israel argues the territory is Syrian.
The United Nations has requested Lebanon provide sufficient proof of ownership.
Earlier this week, the Lebanese government sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, urging him to pressure Israel into implementing Resolution 1701.
In a letter to Ban, Lebanon said that Israel had violated its airspace 347 times since the UN chief’s last report. It added that Israel had carried out respectively 33 and 75 sea and land violations.
Total violations since the adoption of Resolution 1701 in 2006 had reached 6,945, according to the letter. Lebanon’s memo referred to increased Israeli threats to Lebanon, saying “they have reached a point of threatening full destruction of its [the country’s] infrastructure.”
Also in the letter, Lebanon urged the international community to exert all efforts to put an end to such threats that destabilize Lebanon. – AFP, with The Daily Star
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