Protest in French Embassy to Liberate Georges Abdallah

Local Editor

The International Campaign to Free Georges Abdallah [ICFGA], who was imprisoned for 28 years in French jails, organized Tuesday a protest outside the French embassy in Beirut.

Hundreds of activists as well as representatives of the Lebanese Democratic Youth and Jordanian Communist Party participated in the gathering.
The protesters carried banners denouncing the appeal of the French Ministry of Justice against the conditional release of Abdallah issued a week ago.

In a statement for the ICFGA, Bassam Kantar slammed the American ambassador to Paris, Charles Rivkin's, statement in which he claimed that "there is a valid concern of the threat Mr. Abdallah imposes on the international community if released."
Kanatr described the US stance as "a scandalous violation of French judiciary verdicts."
The campaign's statement further pointed out that "we protest here to declare, in the name of the ICFGA, our condemnation of the French administration that violates, in Abdallah's case, all international and French laws."

"We seek to escalate our movement, since the French administration implied that it is under the US's pressure, and the Lebanese authority is helpless in protecting its citizens from the French injustice," ICFGA further accentuated.
The statement concluded: "Wrong and injustice have prevailed, and to mend mistakes, we must cross the right borders, so we ask the Lebanese government not to push us into crossing this border."

Source: al-Ahed News, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org