Samir Kintar with 8 other former POWs to go to Tehran

 
Source: IRNA, 28-01-2009

Tehran- Samir Kintar, a symbol of Lebanese and Arab resistance against the "Israeli" atrocities as well as 8 other former POWs from different countries will arrive in Tehran on Thursday.
In a ceremony in Tehran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will honor Kintar and other former POWs.

In 1978, during "Israeli" attacks against Lebanon, Kintar, who was only 16 years old, took part at the war against the occupying forces in south Lebanon.
In January 1978, when he was trying to cross border between Jordan and occupied Palestine, he was arrested by Jordanian intelligence officers and spent 11 months in Jordanian prison.

In January 1980, an "Israeli" court in Tel Aviv sentenced Kintar to 5 times life imprisonment in addition to 47 years, too.
Sheikh Abdulkarim Obeyed, another Prisoner of War was born in southern city of Jabsheet, Lebanon, in 1957.
He was imprisoned for 14 years, 6 months and one day in a Zionist regime prison in occupied territory.
Mustafa Dib Dayrani was born in 1945 in Baalbek, Lebanon and in 1988 was kidnapped by "Israeli" forces from his home and was in prison for 10 years.

Andy M. Fatwa, deputy speaker of Indonesian Popular Consultative Parliament and a religious activist and head of several religious associations was arrested in 1984 during Suharto regime in Tanjung incident.

Hazam Mouhan Saad al-Kanani, born in 1962 in city of Wasset, Iraq. She was sister of 4 Iraqi freedom fighters, who have been martyred during Saddam Hussein regime, and spent years in prison just because of belonging to a Saddam opposition family.

Jabbar Moat Kessar was born in 1961 and spent 20 years of his life in prison 11 years of which was in Abu Ghoraib Prison. Muhammad Khazaal Fazel al-Mousavi, born in 1958 in Iraq, and spent five years in Abu Ghoraib Prison.