“If you don’t have guards, shoot them from the window!” This is what MP Jamil El-Sayyed uttered during a press conference, encouraging politicians to shoot at protesters outside their homes.
After this statement, and at the many reactions from the public, El-Sayyed went back the next day with another tweet to confirm that he indeed meant what he said. His tweet translates as follows:
“In the army, I learned that a person without dignity does not defend a homeland.
In the state, I learned that whoever has no dignity becomes corrupt and does not build a state for the people,
In Roumieh prison, I learned that a person without dignity accepts to be a false witness!
My words yesterday were for every thug who comes under my house’s window to insult my dignity and my family.
My words were intended.
Not a slip of the tongue.”
ุขุฎุฑ ููุงู :
— ุงูููุงุก ุฌู ูู ุงูุณููุฏ (@jamil_el_sayyed) June 4, 2020
ูู ุงูุฌูุด ุชุนููู ุช ุฃู ู ู ูุง ูุฑุงู ุฉ ูู ูุง ูุฏุงูุน ุนู ูุทูุ
ูู ุงูุฏููุฉ ุชุนููู ุช ุฃู ู ู ูุง ูุฑุงู ุฉ ูู ูุตุจุญ ูุงุณุฏุงู ููุง ูุจูู ุฏููุฉ ูููุงุณุ
ูู ุณุฌู ุฑูู ูุฉ ุชุนููู ุช ุฃู ู ู ูุง ูุฑุงู ุฉ ูู ููุจู ุฃู ูููู ุดุงูุฏ ุฒูุฑ!
ููุงู ู ุฃู ุณ ูุงู ููู ุฃุฒุนุฑ ุจูุฌู ุชุญุช ุดุจุงู ุจูุชู ูุฅูุงูุฉ ูุฑุงู ุชู ูุนุงุฆูุชูุ
ููุงู ู ู ูุตูุฏุ
ู ุด ุฒููุฉ ูุณุงู
At that, a group of lawyers prompted to file a lawsuit against him for inciting to kill protesters, unarmed civilians who have been undertaking a civil revolution, and practicing their rights to protest.
The lawyers of Marsad Al-Qanouni (Legal Observatory), Jad Tohme, Wasef El-Harake, Hany El-Ahmadieh, and Ali Abbas took the tweet to be a confirmation of this incitement to kill and filed the lawsuit against El-Sayyed.
In a tweet exhibiting the lawsuit document, attorney Wasef Harake wrote:
“I hope that insults will not be an unforgivable crime and the incitement to kill and threatening a matter of perception.
Justice is in front of a big test or is she (Justice) really blind or she sees only with one eye. The lawyers of The Legal Observatory have presented a lawsuit against Jamil El-Sayyed for committing a proven crime through the incitement of killing the revolutionaries and forbid them to practice their civic rights.”
ูุฃู ู ุฃู ูุง ูููู ุงูุดุชู ุฌุฑู ูุง ูุบุชูุฑ ูุงูุชุญุฑูุถ ุนูู ุงููุชู ูุงูุชูุฏูุฏ ู ุณุฃูุฉ ูููุง ูุธุฑ
— ูุงุตู ุงูุญุฑูุฉ (@WasefHarake) June 4, 2020
ุงูุนุฏุงูุฉ ุฃู ุงู ุฅู ุชุญุงู ูุจูุฑ ุงู ุง ูู ูุนูุงู ุนู ูุงุก ูุฅู ุง ุชุฑู ูููู ุจุนูู ูุงุญุฏุฉ
ู ุญุงู ู #ุงูู ุฑุตุฏ_ุงููุงูููู ุชูุฏู ูุง ุจุฏุนูู ุถุฏ #ุฌู ูู_ุงูุณูุฏ ูุงุฑุชูุงุจู ุฌุฑู ูุง ู ุดููุฏูุง ุนุจุฑ ุงูุชุญุฑูุถ ุนูู ูุชู ุงูุซูุงุฑ ูู ูุนูู ู ู ู ู ุงุฑุณุฉ ุญููููู ุงูู ุฏููุฉ pic.twitter.com/pjrd7yLI9Z
In context, the people in Lebanon are the ones enduring daily offenses, robbed as they are from their basic rights to live with dignity.
A wise man once said, “The dignity of a ruler is not in the wars he wages but in ensuring the dignity of his people.”
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