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UN slams Lebanon for slow progress into murder probe of Hezbollah critic

Lokman Slim in an interview with MTV Lebanon News on July 27, 2013. (Screenshot: YouTube)
Lokman Slim in an interview with MTV Lebanon News on July 27, 2013. (Screenshot: YouTube)

UN rights experts voice deep concern at the slow pace of an investigation into the killing of Lebanese intellectual Lokman Slim two years ago, demanding that Beirut ensure accountability.

“It is incumbent on the Lebanese authorities to fully investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of this heinous crime,” the four independent experts say. “Failing to carry out a prompt and effective investigation may in itself constitute a violation of the right to life.”

A secular activist from a Shiite family, 58-year-old Slim was found dead in his car on February 4, 2021, a day after his family reported him missing. His bullet-riddled body was found in southern Lebanon — a stronghold of the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement of which he was heavily critical.

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