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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60839-2003Aug14.html
Human Rights Defender in Lebanon Now an Imprisoned Defendant
(Washington Post) - Muhammad Mugraby, 64, a prominent Lebanese human rights lawyer and activist who is among the few who have dared to defend Lebanese citizens imprisoned in Syria, was arrested last week in Beirut on the charge of "impersonating a lawyer." Mugraby documented the disappearance and detention of Lebanese citizens in Syria in a report for Human Rights Watch titled "An Alliance Beyond the Law." Lebanese citizens have disappeared - some apparently seized from their homes - detained by Syrians or Lebanese authorities under Syrian pressure because of their opposition to the Syrian presence in Lebanon.