Relatives and families of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons sent an urgent appeal to the concerned authorities and leaders of countries, demanding that the fate of their children be revealed and that they be released, after long years of enforced disappearance and the absence of any official news about their conditions.
Lawyer Bahia Abu Hamad conveyed this appeal, after receiving the file of the detainees from their families, with the aim of following up on it on the legal and humanitarian levels.
In a statement from Sydney, Abu Hamad stressed that she accepted the file with full responsibility, and indicated that she had seen testimonies and documents related to the conditions of detention and the conditions of detainees, and the details they contain documenting the continuous pain that families have been experiencing for years.
She stated that “among the detainees are Lebanese and Australians of Lebanese origin who are still alive,” explaining that she would send correspondence to Australia, in addition to a number of heads of state and kings of countries, in order to help reveal their fate and work to return them to their families in Lebanon and Australia.
She also expressed her hope that “the President of the Lebanese Republic, Joseph Aoun, and the President of the Syrian Arab Republic, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, will respond to this file, in a way that contributes to addressing and ending it.”
Abu Hamad concluded her statement by thanking the families of the detainees for the trust they gave her, stressing that “she will continue to pursue the case legally in cooperation with the families, until the fate is revealed.”
The issue of Lebanese detainees in Syrian prisons is considered one of the humanitarian issues that has been pending for a long time, and is accompanied by continuous demands from families to reveal the fate of the missing people and clarify their legal and humanitarian conditions. Despite repeated appeals and human rights movements, ambiguity still surrounds this file, which increases the suffering of families waiting for any official information about their children, in light of ongoing legal and diplomatic efforts to raise it at the local and international levels.
