BEIRUT – Friends, family members and diplomats on Thursday demanded “accountability” for the death of Lebanese publisher and Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim.
Slim, a 58-year-old political activist and commentator, was found dead with six bullets in his body last week on a deserted rural road in the country’s south.
He was visiting friends there and was due to return to Beirut. When he did not, his family reported him missing. “This is a barbaric act, unforgivable and unacceptable,” said U.S.
ambassador Dorothy Shea, standing next to his family at the tightly-secured ceremony at Slim's home. “Like him, let us not be deterred.