Lebanese Forces bloc MP
Elie Keyrouz filed a request to turn his call for an inquiry into the issue of
Lebanese prisoners in Syrian prisons into a more formal examination, the
National News Agency reported on Monday.
“I requested Speaker Nabih
Berri to turn the inquiry into an examination, particularly by Justice Minister
Shakib Qortbawi,” Keyrouz said.
“The cabinet’s silence on
the presence of [Lebanese] detainees in Syrian prisons is no longer acceptable
after all this time. It is a moral and political scandal,” Keyrouz added.
Rights groups have said
that thousands of Lebanese nationals were arbitrarily detained and sent to
Syrian prisons after the 1975 civil war and the Syrian entry into Lebanon.
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