He has been in prison for 40 years. The sentence enforcement court accepted on Friday the eleventh request for conditional release of the Lebanese pro-Palestinian activist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, imprisoned for complicity in murder and free since 1999, the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office (Pnat) told AFP, which announced to appeal.
“By decision dated today, the sentence enforcement court admitted Georges Ibrahim Abdallah to the benefit of conditional release from December 6, subject to the condition of leaving the national territory and no longer appearing there,” said the Pnat in a press release.
Complicity in the assassination of diplomats
Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986 for complicity in the assassination of two diplomats, an American and an Israeli, Georges Abdallah, imprisoned in the Lannemezan penitentiary center (Hautes-Pyrénées), is according to his supporters “the oldest prisoner in world linked to the Middle East conflict.
Released for 25 years, all his requests for conditional release had been rejected, except one in 2013, accepted on condition that he was subject to an expulsion order which had however not been implemented by the minister of the Interior at the time, Manuel Valls.
“Legal and political victory”
The court’s decision on Friday is not conditional on the government issuing such a decree, Mr. Abdallah’s lawyer, Me Jean-Louis Chalanset, rejoiced to AFP, welcoming “a legal victory and a political victory.
At the beginning of the 1980s and while Lebanon was in the middle of a civil war, Georges Abdallah, a former schoolteacher, co-founded the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Fractions (FARL), a small pro-Syrian and anti-Israeli Marxist group which claimed responsibility for five attacks, four of which were fatal, in 1981-1982 in France
Source: www.20minutes.fr
