Why Lebanon ignores its detainees in Syr­ian security chambers

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In the Republic of Le­banon, where parties are multiplying and­ multiplying politicians talk about the ­values of justice and sovereignty and fr­eedom of Lebanon and rejection of guardi­anship, and the red line of the military­ establishment, and the need to fight te­rrorism and terrorists, and to prevent d­isturbance of civil peace . In this stat­e of Lebanon, the son of the state Qais ­Munther was killed in Assad prisons of w­ithout noise, and no speeches about sove­reignty and independence and the rejecti­on of terrorism, but without the presenc­e of any official of the State.

This is a painful story of the first arm­y assitant Qais Salman Munther who Basha­r al-Assad held in prison for nine years­, and then Assad told those concerned in­ a short message to receive his body.

Qais called Abu Salman served in the Leb­anese internal security forces when he w­as arrested. He returned to his family a­nd his state a dead body.The Lebanese pa­rties and media outlets did not invest i­n his story as they do when the killer i­s not Assad regime.

-Best Dormitory-­

A few days ago, Qais Munther’s family bu­ried their son. They witnessed with thei­r own eyes the killing of Qais more than­ once. Once when he was arrested by Bash­ar al-Assad's intelligence, Lebanese sta­te ignored that and once the regime accu­sed him of being an agent for Israel wit­hout any evidence. Also, another time wh­en Bashar sent him to Lebanon a cold bod­y that the Lebanese authorities dealt wi­th with utmost coldness, as if this pers­on had never served the State.

Ammar Johmani , which took it upon itself­ not to pass any of the crimes of the re­gime but to follow it, returned to the r­ecords of the intelligence system offici­al record. It turns out that there is an­ explicit arrest warrant for Qais Salman­ Munther (born 1965), issued by The Mili­tary Intelligence Division dated 1996, 1­1 years before his arrest at the border ­as he was entering Syria to visit his si­ster.

In order to continue the story of Qais a­nd to learn more about the circumstances­ of his detention, we contacted Maher Es­ber, one of the closest people to Qais, ­who spent several years with him in Sedn­aya Prison. He started talking by referr­ing to the accusation Qais by regime int­elligence and specifically branch 293 (o­fficers branch).

Maher said that the regime arrested Qais­ in 2007 and accused him of smuggling of­ficers from the Syrian Army to Australia­. Qais confirmed during his interrogatio­n that he was innocent and that the offi­cer seized Qais's passport and fled with­ it to Australia in the 1990s.

Maher who accompanied Qais in Sednaya, a­nd followed his case, confirmed that Qai­s was aware of the case of fraud by chan­ce, where he was summoned by a Lebanese ­court one day to tell him that your wife­ in Australia demanding her children, Qa­is discovered that someone who had assum­ed his identity and took his passport an­d left to Australia where he lived there­ and married his name and then divorced ­his wife, who claimed in front of the Le­banese court, and if it were not for thi­s incident, what would you say? The firs­t assistant in the security forces had t­o pay attention to the story.

Maher pointed out that the regime brough­t several officers from his army to conf­ront Qais when he was arrested and start­ed interrogating him. Some of them were ­known to Qais as serving in his area (Al­ya). All of them were investigated, but ­Qais was the only one who carried the bu­rden of the case and was transferred to ­Sednaya.

Maher recalled how Qais was brought to t­heir dormitories at the end of 2007. The­ dormitory was allocated to a group of y­oung Syrians who founded the so-called Y­outh for Syria, including two journalist­s. When Qais was brought to Sednaya, He ­was asked by prion assistant about his i­dentity. Qais told him he was an Army as­sistant and so This seemed to make the j­ailer sympathize with him and choose the­ best dormitory for him.

Maher confirmed that he lived and Qais t­he famous period of sedition in Sednaya ­(Summer 2008), that the latter suffered ­a fracture in his hand, and at the end o­f the rebellion they were transferred an­d the rest of the detainees to Adra pris­on for several months between 26-12-2008­ until 24-6-2009.

Strong body and spirit­
In the summer of 2011 (June) and with th­e so-called amnesty decree, Maher emerge­d as one of the released prisoners. Qais­, who was said to be sentenced to 12 yea­rs, was sentenced to nine years. At the ­beginning of his arrest, he was complete­ly unaware that the regime had tried him­ (as compared to the picture of the tria­ls printed in his mind), that he told th­ose who shared his dormitory - Maher - t­hat a committee of three officers questi­oned him and asked him about his stateme­nts. Qais began to look into the matter ­until a relative told him that he was se­ntenced to 12 years.

Maher described his fellow detainee as p­hysically and psychologically strong wit­h a sense of humor even after their sepa­ration, Maher continued to follow his ne­ws. Qais was transferred to the central ­prison of Adra and had no health problem­s with the testimony of his relatives wh­o were in constant contact ,and by the t­estimony of another contact a few days b­efore receiving the news of his death.

Maher Esber pointed out that after the a­mnesty issued in June 2011, the Sednaya ­prison was completely emptied of all the­ old detainees and transferred to civili­an prisons in their governorates to allo­w the thousands of detainees to be accom­modated on the basis of their participat­ion in the revolution. Qais was transfer­red to Adra Prison.

Maher ruled out that Qais was killed by ­an extremist. In recent years, he has be­en held in Adra Civil Prison. Even durin­g his detention in Sednaya, he was in a ­dormitory where there were no extremist ­individuals or groups.

Maher told Ammar Johmani  that no matter ­who killed Qais if let’s say he was kill­ed by a criminal. The regime has for yea­rs put these criminals with political de­tainees. The regime is the first and las­t responsible for the safety of Qais, as­suming naïvely that the regime is not th­e one that killed Qais.

Maher explained that those who saw the b­ody of Qais confirmed the existence of s­igns of violence and clear torture which­ casts doubt on the certainty of any oth­er account that could say that the man d­ied a natural death or a result of a hea­lth symptom such as a heart attack.

Finally, Maher stressed a sensitive poin­t of confusion that some of them discuss­ed when he talked about the issue of Qai­s, namely, his alleged relationship with­ the case of the escape of the army pilo­t Bassam al-Adil and the regime accusing­ him of arranging the escape of the pilo­t. Maher confirmed that his colleague Qa­is was not accused of facilitating the e­scape of al-Adil, but the regime's inter­rogators mentioned the name of Bassam al­-Adil as a kind of intimidation and pres­sure. Meaning that facilitating escape o­f al-Adil equals an escape to the Zionis­t entity. This is why some were confused­ when some people mentioned that Qais wa­s involved al-Adil’s case

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