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Reuters GORAN TOMASEVIC
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Lebanese Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Fouad Dandan announced that he has no information on the reasons why the 14 Lebanese were arrested, noting that the investigations are still secret.
“The Lebanese community is the second largest Arab community in the Emirates, and we are the fewest communities arrested,” Dandan said in an interview with the Lebanese channel “LBCI”.
He added: “We have no information on the reasons why the 14 Lebanese were arrested. The investigations are still confidential, and we always communicate with the families of those arrested and with the authorities in the United Arab Emirates who allow contact between the detainees. and families. “
He said: “We have not been officially informed of any decision to stop granting visas to Lebanese, and I contacted the Emirati authorities and they confirmed that there is no decision on this.”
He continued: “There are Lebanese who managed to obtain visas and others could not. There are conditions for obtaining visas, and in Lebanon there is a kind of panic, since people present more than one visa application on the same day, and this leads to “SYSTEM” denying the visa, and to the Emirate. The only one that has lifted the ban on visitor visas is Dubai in light of the measures taken in the Corona matter. “
On November 20, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported that 14 Lebanese were arrested in the United Arab Emirates in two batches while practicing the hobby of soccer.
The newspaper said that “the detainees reside in the Emirates and their searches are unprecedented in the Emirates or Lebanon,” and that the detainees included seven from the southern city of Shhur.
Source: RT + “newsletter site”
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