Lebanese researcher, publisher and Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim assassinated in South Lebanon
Timeline
January 26, 2023: Four UN independent experts including the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions send up a follow-up letter to the Lebanese authorities expressing “their concern at the lack of progress in the investigation two years after Slim’s assassination."
March 22, 2021: Three UN independent experts including the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions call on the Lebanese authorities to “urgently implement measures to guarantee the independence and the impartiality of the investigation and ensure that those responsible are identified and held accountable."
March 19, 2021: MENA Rights Group and Paola Salwan Daher submit a Letter of Allegation to the UN Special Procedures, urging them to call on the Lebanese authorities to conduct a prompt, independent and thorough investigation into Slim’s assassination.
March 16, 2021: Four UN Independent experts, including the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, call on the Lebanese authorities to clarify the steps taken to investigate Slim’s assassination and any possible links that exist between his assassination and the August 4 Beirut port explosion.
February 04, 2021: Lokman Slim is found dead in his car in the town of Addoussieh in South Lebanon.
February 03, 2021: Slim is abducted after visiting friends in the village of Niha in South Lebanon.
January 2021: In a televised interview with Al Hadath TV, Slim states that Hezbollah, Russia and Syria are responsible for the quantities of ammonium nitrate, which resulted in the Beirut port explosion of 4 August 4, 2020.
December 13, 2019: After receiving death threats, Slim issues a statement attributing responsibility to the leaders of Hezbollah and the Amal movement “for what happened to [him], and what could happen to [him].”
December 2019: Death threats are plastered on the walls of Lokman Slim’s house in Haret-Hreik, in the Baabda district of Lebanon.
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