BEIRUT: Two Lebanese Communist Party activists were kidnapped Friday and detained at an unidentified location in Shiyyah, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, before being freed three hours later after having been beaten up, LCP’s youth branch said in a statement Sunday. The statement added the two had been warned against calling for and taking part in a rally Sunday demanding an end to Lebanon’s confessional system. The statement condemned the “irresponsible security and individual act,” as well as the “assault against the communist youth by beating and threatening them.” The branch stressed that intimidation attempts would fail to thwart its demands to abolish political sectarianism. –The Daily Star
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