: pro-Palestinian activists demand the release of a Lebanese man incarcerated for 40 years

: pro-Palestinian activists demand the release of a Lebanese man incarcerated for 40 years
Perpignan: pro-Palestinian activists demand the release of a Lebanese man incarcerated for 40 years

In June 2023, Georges Abdallah's lawyer made a request for conditional release to a sentence enforcement judge. The decision should be known this Friday, November 15.

Local associations in support of Palestine and the Independent Workers' Party 66 mobilized this Thursday in front of the prefecture to demand the immediate release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese activist, who co-founded the Fractions organization in 1979 Lebanese armies. Sent to to support the Palestinian resistance, he was arrested in 1984 for using false papers and sentenced three years later to life imprisonment for complicity in the assassination of two American and Israeli diplomats.

Released under French law since 1999, “he served his sentence, but the politicians refused his eleven requests for release. IThey must apply the court decision and George Abdallah must return to his country, Lebanon.“, demand local associations. Now aged 73, he has been incarcerated for 40 years in Lannemezan prison, in the Hautes-Pyrénées. His lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, made a twelfth request for conditional release in 2023 The decision should be known on November 15.

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