Souha Bechara, a Lebanese resistance fighter, former political prisoner and communist militant, was arrested while going from Beirut to Switzerland via Athens. She was detained for several hours and expelled towards Lebanon, on the grounds that she represented a “threat to national security” of “European countries”.
Souha Bechara is an extremely popular personality in Lebanon. She joined the Lebanese resistance in 1986 by fighting against the occupation of South Lebanon by the Israeli army and its Lebanese mercenaries of the Army of South Lebanon (ALS). In 1988, Bechara received the mission of shooting the ALS commander, fascist Antoine Lahhad. She seriously injured him with two bullets in the jaw and arm. As a result, she was tortured with electric shocks for three months in the notorious Khiam prison, run by SLA on behalf of the Israeli secret services. She was held there for 10 years in a tiny cell.
Released and returned to the Red Cross on September 1, 1998 (photo), after a campaign of international pressures, she was welcomed as a heroine in Beirut. After her release, she spent time and studied in France, then settled in Switzerland, where she got married and had two children. This ban on entry into the Schengen area is an integral part of the European Union escalation against the Palestinian and Arab resistance.
Source: Secours Rouge