Document #1342740

IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)

Information regarding the death of British subject Dennis Hill and the kidnapping of Amanda(?) in May 1985. [LBN2754]

Mr. Dennis Hill, a British lecturer at the American University in Beirut, was shot dead on 29 May 1985. [ Keesing's Contemporary Archives, Record of World Events, Volume XXXII, January 1986, p. 34133.] The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for his death in a phone call to a Beirut news agency. [ "Index Index", Index on Censorship, October 1985 (No. 5), p. 66.] A Lebanese female, Florence Raad, the Beirut correspondent of a London-based Arab language daily, was kidnapped in May 1985 by members of the Druze Progressive Socialist Party. [ Ibid.] No other females are mentioned in the two attached reports discussing kidnapping in Beirut in May 1985.
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Keesing's Contemporary Archives, Record of World Events, Volume XXXII, January 1986, p. 34133.
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"Index Index", Index on Censorship, October 1985 (No. 5), p. 66.

ecoi.net description:
Information regarding the death of British subject Dennis Hill and the kidnapping of Amanda(?) in May 1985. [LBN2754]
Country:
Lebanon
Source:
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Document type:
Response
Language:
English
Published:
15 November 1989
Document ID:
1342740 (former ID 184927)

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