Lebanese militant says ‘struggle’ helped him endure French prison

Sitting near a poster of Che Guevara inside his French prison cell before his release this week, pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah said the “struggle” kept him going during his four decades behind bars.

A court last week ordered the 74-year-old — who was jailed over the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats in Paris — be released from the Lannemezan prison in southern France on Friday.

Abdallah is one of the longest-serving prisoners in France, where most convicts…

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News Source: www.al-monitor.com

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