LF member released
after outcry over arrest
21/12/02-Daily
Star: Fadi Shamati, a member of the banned Lebanese Forces Party, was released from
custody on Friday.
Judicial sources said Thursday that Shamati had been arrested for allegedly possessing
coded papers containing specific information that called for an
investigation.Earlier, the Toronto-based Lebanese-Canadian Human Rights Federation
denounced Shamatis arrest and called for his release. The statement said that
Shamati, who is a distributor for the Tannourine Bottling company, was picked up from his
workplace Wednesday and that and his residence was raided without any legal or
humanitarian justification. It appealed to countries of the free world,
the United Nations and human rights organizations to intervene to determine where Shamati
was being held and seek his timely release. Shamatis arrest and detention were
illegal, as they were carried out by army intelligence officers who had no authority to
detain a civilian suspect, the statement claimed.