lokman slim – The Milli Chronicle https://www.millichronicle.com Factual Version of a Story Thu, 04 Feb 2021 17:27:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://media.millichronicle.com/2018/11/12122950/logo-m-01-150x150.png lokman slim – The Milli Chronicle https://www.millichronicle.com 32 32 Letter of slain Hezbollah-critic Lokman Slim shows he received constant threats https://www.millichronicle.com/2021/02/letter-of-slain-hezbollah-critic-lokman-slim-shows-he-received-constant-threats.html Thu, 04 Feb 2021 17:27:35 +0000 https://millichronicle.com/?p=18003 Beirut – A letter of the slain Hezbollah-critic Lokman Slim which he wrote in December 2019 shows that he constantly received threats and violent opposition from the Iran-backed militant organization.

Slim wrote in Arabic, “For the second time in 48 hours the bats pursue from darkness to darkness to terrorize me and intimidate me by violating the sanctity of my family’s home in Huriek street. This home is also Ummam Research Center and Aljadeed Publishing House”.

“The first instance took place on 11 December where a crowd gathered in the front garden of my house, and started calling me a traitor and called on me names. The second instance was on December 13th, where stickers calling me a traitor and threatening my life were posted all over the house”, Slim continued.

Slim held Lebanese authorities responsible if anything would happen him or his family.

“I through this statement hold the Lebanese authority responsible for the threats to my life, and to my wife’s life, and threats of physical violence and harm”, Slim concluded.

Slim was a prominent Lebanese Shiite critic of Iran-backed Hezbollah and a publisher who ran a research centre. He was found dead in a car in southern Lebanon on Thursday, after he was shot with a bullet to the head.

Saudi-based researcher Khaled Hamoud Alshareef tweeted that the slain activist would have received attention of media and the political elite for his murder, if he was a Saudi or Egyptian.

]]> MURDER: Lebanese critic of Iran-backed Hezbollah killed https://www.millichronicle.com/2021/02/murder-lebanese-critic-of-iran-backed-hezbollah-killed.html Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:59:56 +0000 https://millichronicle.com/2021/02/lebanese-critic-of-hezbollah-killed-sources-local-media/ Beirut (Reuters) – A prominent Lebanese Shi’ite critic of Iran-backed Hezbollah was found dead in a car in southern Lebanon on Thursday, two security sources and local media said.

The sources said Lokman Slim, an activist and publisher who ran a research centre, was shot with a bullet to the head.

They said the motive was not immediately clear and a preliminary investigation was under way.

One of the security sources said Slim’s phone was found earlier on the side of a road in southern Lebanon, where Shi’ite Hezbollah has a dominant presence. It was the first such alleged killing of a leading anti-Hezbollah activist in years.

Slim’s family said he went missing overnight. His wife tweeted that he was not answering his phone.

A relative said the family found out about his death from a news alert while at a police station to report his disappearance.

At the family home in the southern suburbs of Beirut, family members sat in silence and shock, while some wept.

Slim’s criticism of Hezbollah has faced rebuke from supporters of the armed movement, who sometimes called him “an embassy Shi’ite,” a term accusing opponents of being tools of the United States.

Washington deems Hezbollah a terrorist organization and has ramped up sanctions against its officials and allies in Lebanon in recent years.

Hezbollah did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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