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.
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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
