"[We] call on all political, security, and judicial figures to take responsibility and help find [Aisamy]," a statement from his family said Friday, adding that the family had contacted members of Hezbollah and Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt asking for help.
The Syrian Committee for Human Rights said Friday that 86-year-old Aisamy, a defector from Assad's ruling Baath Party went missing Tuesday after leaving his daughter’s house in the town of Aley while on vacation. The rights group urged Lebanese authorities not to hand him over to Syria, Associated Press reported.
In a statement the Media Against Violence foundation said that it holds the Lebanese government responsible for the kidnapping.
"The foundation holds the Lebanese government responsible for revealing the fate of the Syrian opposition figure who was kidnapped in daylight," the statement said, adding that Lebanon should protect its reputation by refusing to cover up a crime against humanity.
Aisamy, according to the family's statement, was one of the founders in 1943 of the Arab Socialist Baath Party. He held many ministerial positions between 1962 and 1966, when he was appointed deputy for the Syrian president.
He resigned from political life in 1992 and has written around 17 books about the Arab nation and unity.
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