Now Lebanon - Hamadeh: Syrian embassy should be closed if guilty of abductions, October 20, 2011

March 14 MP Marwan Hamadeh said in an interview published on Thursday that the Syrian Embassy in Lebanon should be closed if it was involved in the abduction of Syrian nationals in Lebanon.“If [Syrian embassy] is proven to be involved in these operations, then we ask for its closure,” he told Al-Jumhuriya newspaper.Hamadeh added that no treaties between Lebanon or Syria allow for “abducting citizens.”The kidnapping of Syrian nationals in Lebanon should be tackled by higher authorities, he also said.Al-Jumhuriya newspaper reported on October 11 that Internal Security Forces Director General Achraf Rifi told the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee that “Lebanese security forces assigned to protect the Syrian embassy in Lebanon kidnapped four [dissident] Syrians using embassy vehicles.”