Names of the 54 Lebanese political prisoners released from Syrian prisons in December 2000 [LBN38919.E]

Syria transferred 54 prisoners to Lebanon in December 2000, consisting of 46 Lebanese and 8 Palestinians (HRW 2002).

According to the Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'homme (FIDH), the following 54 prisoners were released in December 2000:

  • Mohammed Hallak
  • Mounir Ahmed
  • Ali Abou Dehn
  • Ali Youssef Arabi
  • Mohammed Saïd Seifeddine
  • Nached Mohammed Bahjat Chamelé
  • Raja Kabalan
  • Joseph Abi Najm
  • Marwan Fahim Ezzedine
  • Khaled Yassine
  • Jamal Mustafa Karara
  • Amale Amine Khodari
  • Hassan Sadek Wehbé
  • Abdel Rahmane Mahmoud Akkaché
  • Naji Aziz Harb
  • Sélim Hussein Awada
  • Jihad Mahmoud Jamal
  • Fadi Chahine Souaïd
  • Ibrahim Herchi
  • Khaled Khodr Toufic
  • Saïd Adel Jurd
  • Fouad Salem Abou Ghader
  • Moussa Mohammed Moussa Saab
  • Samir Mahmoud Tiba
  • Élias Challita Abou Ghosn
  • Amir Amine Yassine
  • Issam Osman Moustarah
  • Omar Mustafa Kholi
  • Hekmat Kassem Baydoun
  • Adnane Seifeddine
  • Hassan Mehdi
  • Samir Aboul Kheir
  • Nazih Khanji
  • Salmane Ahmed Khallouf
  • Kassem Bedrane
  • Farouk Magid Jamal
  • Wahib Accaoui
  • Nemr Abou Zayane
  • Rawane Ibrahim
  • Waël Nasser Nasser
  • Élias Loutfallah Tanios
  • Ahmed Yassine Serhane
  • Jamil Dib Dib
  • Ahmed Abou Farah
  • Joseph Aziz Hallit
  • Alaa Mahmoud Abdel Rahim
  • Camille Bawaridi
  • Rabih Talal Hassan
Abdel Nasser Mohammed el-Asmar Hamawi
  • Ahmed Rachid
  • Ali Hassan Zeydane
  • Mohammed Youssef Abou Ali
  • Abdallah Kamel Zayd
Youssef el-Issa (January 2001)

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

References


Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'homme. January 2001. Liban: L'attente continue pour les familles de détenus et de disparus. http://www.fidh.org/magmoyen/rapport/2001pdf/lb301f.pdf [Accessed 12 Apr. 2002]

Human Rights Watch (HRW). 2002. Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Syria. http://www.hrw.org/wr2k2/mena8.html [Accessed 12 Apr. 2002]