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Maryam Majdouline Lahham wrote in “Nidaa Al Watan” accused of “kidnapping, illegal detention and torture”. An American to consider a case brought against her by two Lebanese US citizens residing in Florida, Lara Mansour and her husband, Elie Samaha, in the context of another case centered on a dispute over a family inheritance between the plaintiff and her relatives, whose value is estimated at about $ 10 million.
Far from the accusation of “obstructing the transfer of inheritance” to the plaintiffs Mansour and Samaha, the new case revolves around the “kidnapping of the spouses in Beirut for more than a week (April 2019), their illegal taking of hostages and torture “after they were lured back to Lebanon to settle Mansour’s inheritance after the death of the wife’s father in 2017, according to his lawyer at the time Lorn Berkeley,” Mansour Samaha claims that his relatives residing in Lebanon prevented him from obtaining the wealth his father left behind him. The matter turned into a legal dispute in which the two Samaha spouses filed a lawsuit in both Lebanon and the South Florida region. Lara was asked to return to Lebanon with her husband to resolve the pending inheritance issue with their relatives, and they were told that they would have obtained their money and would return their property if they went to Lebanon, but as soon as they arrived at the Beiru airport t, the torture journey began, and they were charged with defamation and it was not done. They were released and threatened until their claim was withdrawn under duress. Following the intervention of the US embassy in Lebanon and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Lebanese authorities released them and allowed them to return to the United States. Mansour told local US media, in a video posted on the “Local 10” page: “They tried to kill us and put a knife on us … They forced me to sign everything,” and her husband added: “We were underground. No we could see no light. “
Today, the defendants, Basil and the others, have the opportunity to respond to the complaint within 21 days after receiving the summons issued by the court on the 27th of last month, that is, a few days before the issuance of US sanctions against Bassil, in accordance with the “Magnitsky” law which targets corruption and serious violations. For human rights in every country in the world, that is, before he was banned from traveling to the United States of America and his money was seized. Here we ask, will your client represent you in the coming days?
The subpoena indicated that the defendants, Basil, members of his political party and others, “acted in concert to torture” the spouses. Some of them were accused of transferring Lara and Ellie to detention centers, and another politician of using their connections to organize kidnappings and torture. They also claimed that a member of the Free Patriot had facilitated the kidnapping by filing a defamation complaint against the spouses.
The Samaha couple also claim that Minister Basil received an alleged reward from her relatives for using her connections in the security and judicial departments to issue the “kidnapping and torture” order until the case was shelved. Bassil’s media office issued a statement denying her participation in this case and that her name had been unfairly inserted, highlighting that “Deputy Basil has absolutely nothing to do with her, not near or far.”
The lawyer Dani Makaron, in his capacity as lawyer for the family of the late George Mansour, father of Lara Mansour, and the children of his aunt Noha Mansour, published an explanatory book on the lawsuit filed by Lara Mansour against his family, judges and officials . He did not refute any of the accusations directed at the officials, but instead came in the first lines of information. Seriously, “Lara’s husband, Mansour Elie Samaha, had previously been accused of killing his father, George Samaha, in Ashrafieh.” She then reported that Lara Mansour had “lost most of the lawsuits that were filed against her family, and all of them revolved around a legacy issue that was rendered invalid by the judicial decisions that were issued, prompting her to appeal to the US judiciary. after her “claim” in Lebanon, and this time she entered political and judicial references “and fabricated them”. False, fabricated, malicious and defamatory facts “and that upon her return to Lebanon” and in the context of a pending lawsuit between her and her family, an arrest warrant was issued against her according to which she was arrested at the Beirut International Airport and transferred to the Information Division to complete the preliminary investigation with her, in addition to her husband being arrested as the main instigator and interfering All the cases presented are fabrications and lies ”, and that“ Mrs. Mansour, upon her return to Lebanon, must be submitted to a psychiatrist to determine her mental capacity l and the validity of his legal actions are already doomed to fall, as there is no legal basis for it.
Far from superficial responses to the serious accusations that affect the prestige of the Lebanese judiciary, will there be an official and sovereign response from Lebanon to all these accusations?
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