Jamil Al Sayyed

rdf:langString Jamil Al Sayyed

rdf:langString Al Nabi Ayla, Lebanon

rdf:langString جميل السيد

rdf:langString Director General of the Lebanese General Directorate of General Security

rdf:langString Deputy Director of Intelligence Directorate Lebanese Armed Forces

rdf:langString Raymond Roufael

rdf:langString December 1998

rdf:langString August 1991

rdf:langString Jamil Al Sayyed (Arabic: جميل السيد; born 1950) is a Lebanese politician, a current Member of the Parliament of Lebanon, and the former head of Lebanon's Sureté Générale or Lebanese General Security Directorate. He was arbitrarily detained for four years, from 2005 to 2009 by a law he drafted himself during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, due to his alleged involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. He was released on 29 April 2009 due to "inconsistencies in the statements of key witnesses and of a lack of corroborative evidence to support these statements and to the fact that some witnesses had modified their statements and one key witness had expressly retracted his original statement incriminating the persons detained". On August 18, 2020,The Special Tribunal for Lebanon declared officially in his final judgment on Hariri assassination case that Jamil Sayyed was illegally detained for four years by violation of the international law, and that the United Nations (UN) should compensate him and apologize publicly for his illegal detention, and that the Lebanese authorities should do the same. He was never charged with a crime.He is also a recipient of many International orders and decorations, notably the French Légion d'Honneur, at the grade of “Commandeur”.

rdf:langString جميل السيد