Georges Abdallah receives hero’s welcome in Beirut after four decades in French prison, reaffirms commitment to resistance

August 1st, 20250 BEIRUT – French authorities released Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the Lebanese leftist pro-Palestinian and Europe’s longest-held political prisoner, last Friday, after 41 years in detention. Abdallah, who was arrested in the early 1980s on charges of conspiring to assassinate an American and an Israeli diplomat, arrived at Beirut’s...