The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization in Beirut that was established by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) in 2006. SOLIDA has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human violations.

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October 12, 2011

Now Lebanon - Dib submits draft bill on civil war kidnap victims, October 12, 2011

Change and Reform bloc MP Hikmat Dib submitted on Wednesday a draft bill pertaining to “form an independent national committee for the forcibly disappeared people in Lebanon, whether they were Lebanese or not.”“The committee [will] include judges, civil society activists and NGOs who are concerned about this issue, as well as criminal science specialists,” the National News Agency quoted him as saying.“I can’t call them missing people, because they forcibly disappeared during the civil war,” Dib added.He also said that the crime of kidnapping is not covered by the 1991 amnesty law that pardoned all crimes committed before March 28, 1991 in the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War. Over 150,000 people died in the Lebanese Civil War, while 17,000 disappeared.

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