●The 7 August 2001 crackdown on Free Patriotic Movement and Lebanese Forces activists

Between 5 and 8 August 2001 Lebanese army intelligence carried out a wave of arrests of between 150 and 250 activists of the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces, among them Toufic Hindi and Nadim Lteif, on charges of dealing with Israel. On 9 August plain-clothes men beat demonstrators and journalists outside the Beirut courthouse, and 77 were referred to the courts.