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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April 13, 2012

NowLebanon - SOLIDE holds sit-in on occasion of Lebanese civil war anniversary, April 13, 2012


A committee which has long been lobbying for Lebanese prisoners in Syrian jails held a sit in on Friday in Beirut’s Riad al-Solh square on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the Lebanese civil war, the National News Agency reported.  

Support of Lebanese in Detention and Exile Organization in Lebanon (SOLIDE) chief Wedad Halawani read a statement in which she underscored “the need for a law that would ease the pain of the [victims’] families – [who have been waiting for a long time to know the fate of their missing members].”

The group called for Lebanese lawmakers “to adopt and approve this bill.”
 

The bloody Lebanese civil war erupted on April 13, 1975 and came to an end in 1990. 
 

Rights groups say thousands of men, women and children disappeared at the hands of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad during the Lebanese civil strife, according to AFP.
 

Syria withdrew from Lebanon in 2005 under massive international pressure over the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri.
 

The Assad dynasty has long denied holding any prisoners, but on four different occasions between 1976 and 2000 has released Lebanese who had been held in Syrian jails, according to AFP.
 

-NOW Lebanon/AFP

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