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Leaders of Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Börsenverein, supported by the International Publishers Association, condemn the killing of Lokman Slim on February 4 in the village of Addoussieh.
In Beirut’s downtown Nijmeh Square. Image – Marco Ramerini
‘A Fearless, Outspoken, and Committed Fighter’
In a report from Reuters Beirut, we learned of a protest on Saturday (February 6), demanding an investigation into the killing of anti-Hezbollah activist Lokman Slim, a publisher, critic, and documentary filmmaker. Those protesters’ demand is joined by many in the world publishing community.
Lokman Slim. Image: Dar Al Jadeed
Slim, as many
Publishing Perspectives readers know, was found dead in his car on Thursday (February 4) in southern Lebanon’s village of Addoussieh. He had been shot to death. He was 58.
BEIRUT (AP) An independent autopsy revealed no signs of torture on the body of a well-known Lebanese publisher and vocal critic of the Shiite militant Hezbollah group shot dead in his car last.
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In its extremely brief segment on the latest crime right before the “weather forecast”, al-Manar described Lokman Slim as a “citizen” whose corpse had been found.
Hezbollah’s television station did not use this term to emphasize citizens’ rights and duties. Of course, it did not refer to the notion of a “citizen” whose torture had been forbidden by the ancient civilizations of Rome and Greece. This term was adopted to conceal the many epithets that this man, whom five bullets turned into a “corpse”, deserves.
Lokman Slim was an intellectual, writer, a publisher, a linguist, a director, an archiver, a translator and an activist . there was no shortage of words to describe him. Stripping him of them all is akin to a second murder. The use of the term “citizen” by those for whom homeland only means battleground, a third murder.
Reuters Reuters
7 February, 2021, 8:12 pm
Activists gather two days after the killing of prominent Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim demanding a transparent investigation into the crime, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Around a hundred activists rallied in downtown Beirut on Saturday to protest the killing of prominent Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim and to demand a transparent investigation.
Slim, a Shi’ite publisher in his late fifties, ran a research centre, made documentaries with his wife and led efforts to build an archive on Lebanon’s 1975-1990 sectarian civil war.
He was a vocal critic of what he described as armed group Hezbollah’s intimidation tactics and attempts to monopolise Lebanese politics.