Letter to Major General Abbas Ibrahim Requesting a Meeting to Discuss Crackdown on Gender and Sexuality Advocates in Lebanon

Major General Abbas Ibrahim Director of General Security General Directorate of the General Security of Lebanon Adlieh, Beirut Beirut, December 17, 2018 Dear Major General Ibrahim, Following our correspondence with your office on October 25, 2018 and your well-received response on November 27, 2018, we are writing to you on behalf of Human Rights Watch and the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality to thank you for your detailed reply and to request a formal meeting to discuss the issues you raised, as well as recent developments related to the crackdown on gender and sexuality advocates in…

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