لبنان: مخابرات الجيش اللبناني تختطف سوري من ذوي الاحتياجات خلال تظاهرة لدعم غزة

Lebanon: Lebanese army intelligence kidnaps a Syrian with needs during a

demonstration in support of Gaza

– The arrest of the young Syrian Z.G The 23-year-old, during his participation in a feminist revolutionary demonstration in Lebanon on Friday, received angry reactions from the protesters and on social media, describing the method of his arrest as “arbitrary, coercive, akin to kidnapping, and embodying racism”.

– The demonstration was held at the invitation of Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian feminist groups and activists to support Gaza and its women in front of the headquarters of the United Nations women’s organization in the sin el-fil area east of Beirut, on the occasion of International Women’s day, and raised banners saluting the women of Gaza, the Palestinian people and the oppressed peoples fighting for liberation in Sudan, Yemen, Syria and other countries and denounced colonial feminism and the pinkwashing of repressive regimes and the international capitalist system and its biased organizations.

– One of the organizers of the demonstration told “front line”: “the demonstration was organized on International Women’s day in order to support Gaza and demand an end to the genocide in the Strip and the war on southern Lebanon . We decided to demonstrate in front of UN women because it issued shameful statements that focused on condemning the attacks of October 7, 2023, and justifying the crimes of the occupation, while completely ignoring the genocide and all kinds of torture and sexual, physical and psychological violence to which women, children and men in Gaza are subjected,”he said.

– The speaker criticized the arrival of a car without a license plate belonging to the Lebanese army intelligence, from which people in civilian clothes got off, who kidnapped a demonstrator, a young Syrian with special needs. The young man remained forcibly disappeared for more than five hours, during which he was subjected to the most heinous types of torture, including beatings with hands and pistol fists, and was tortured with electricity, so he was forced to confess to belonging to a terrorist organization, knowing that he participated for the first time in a humanitarian demonstration against the Zionist genocidal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza,”he said. “Is it worthwhile for the security services to suppress the demonstrations by targeting the weakest link (refugees), at a time when we are witnessing a genocide in Gaza and an ongoing war on southern Lebanon?” she asked”.

The spokeswoman added: “What Happened cannot be tolerated, especially since the demonstration that was targeted was peaceful, within the framework of the occasion of International Women’s day and against Israel . Behind this violation is a security apparatus that is supposed to protect the country. This is a direct message against Syrians in general, and against peaceful community protest movements, “he said.

She continued: “the exposure of a young man with special needs is an issue that has increased and raises fears of the return of the campaign of torture of detainees, especially those of Syrian nationality . What is required is to hold those responsible for these violations accountable and not allow them to be committed against anyone,”he said.

This kind of abuse and torture of Syrians in Lebanon to extract confessions from them is a systematic act that we cannot accept.