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Amer Fakhoury evaded justice in #Lebanon 
NOT because of the "statute of limitations" in the case but because the US threatened Lebanon with sanctions unless they released him, then airlifted him out despite fact that he was a wanted fugitive. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/world/middleeast/amer-fakhoury-dead.html?smid=tw-share
NOT because of the "statute of limitations" in the case but because the US threatened Lebanon with sanctions unless they released him, then airlifted him out despite fact that he was a wanted fugitive. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/world/middleeast/amer-fakhoury-dead.html?smid=tw-share
The torture claims brought against Fakhoury had NO statute of limitations because Lebanon is a party to the Convention against Torture, which dictates that there are NO time limits on torture claims. This is not accurately reported in this story.
Rather than reporting on the gross interference in the Lebanese justice system orchestrated by @JeanneShaheen threatening Lebanon with sanctions for prosecuting a torturer whose abuse was well documented, this story oddly cites her describing what a nice guy he was. Why?
Rather than reporting how US illegally interfered in Lebanon's judicial process & airlifted Fakhoury out to evade justice (a court had issued a travel ban against him), we're told that "administration officials" believed this was a Hezbollah directed trial. Where's the evidence?
You know what this "loving husband, father and grandfather, and a pillar in his community" did in Lebanon to detainees of the Israeli-allied prison he headed for 15 years? Brutally tortured them. Some were mere when they entered prison and Fakhoury broke their bones.
Here's one of his victims, Amer Darwish, age 14 whe he entered prison, whom this "loving father" beat the shit out of, breaking his leg, putting a pistol in his mouth and threatening to kill him if he didn't eat the prison "food".
. @jggross you left out the part about how "pillar of the community" Fakhoury whipped Abbas Qiblan, age 19, with electrical cables, rifle butts and sticks and was involved in killing two detainees, Ibrahim Abu Izza and Bilal al-Salma
For all the facts missed in this article @ shameful American meddling in a rare opportunity to bring a brutal torturer to justice for his crimes in the Arab world, simply because the torturer managed to cozy up to an American senator, read here: https://www.justsecurity.org/70272/the-us-goes-to-bat-for-lebanons-butcher-of-khiam/
