BEIRUT: Journalists, politicians and
activists attended a sit-in Friday in solidarity with Syrian and international
journalists organized by media watchdog Samir Kassir Eyes in the Samir Kassir
memorial garden in Downtown Beirut.
Protesters raised the Syrian flag
and photos of martyrs, as a pro-Syrian government protest took place a few
meters away.
Among the attendees was Progressive
Socialist Party official Rami Rayess, representing the party’s leader Walid
Jumblatt.
“The party’s stance from the
beginning of the crisis is that repression always creates counter-repression
and that solutions should always be political,” Rayess said. “Unfortunately,
this has not happened, and we hope the crisis will soon be resolved with the
Syrian population achieving their rights.”
Future Movement MP Moueen Merhebi
expressed solidarity with the “steadfast and heroic” Syrian people who he said
were “facing the most destructive killing machines with only their bare hands.”
Former independent Minister Tarek Mitri said the
crackdown did not discriminate between protesters and journalists. “Therefore,
we are here today to express our solidarity with journalists and also the
entire Syrian population,” he said.
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