That political prisoners in Lebanon who stand for democracy, have wrongly been con-victed and sentenced to indefinite periods of solitary imprisonment in barbarous conditions.

Amnesty International has monitored this situation and has strongly campaigned for the release of all political prisoners and have also criticised the occurrence of torture and incarceration as a result of Syrian occupation in Lebanon.

With Syria's intervention and menacing presence there is the absence of self-government and ability to engage in democratic discussions that existed freely prior the civil war.

Lebanon is a government that has no independent thinking but is only a puppet of Syrian dictatorship.