One year on from the start of the mass protests in Lebanon, on 17 October 2019, the authorities have not only blatantly failed to address people’s legitimate demands for social and economic rights, but they have also resorted to a pattern of repression to suppress people’s right to peaceful assembly as the socio-economic situation went from bad to catastrophic
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