Families of 11 Lebanese abductees protested on Tuesday front of the Turkish embassy in Rabieh, demanding the Lebanese authorities country take serious measures to release the pilgrims.

Families of 11 Lebanese abductees protested on Tuesday front of the Turkish embassy in Rabieh, demanding the Lebanese authorities country take serious measures to release the pilgrims.

Sheikh Abbas Zugheib, who has been tasked to follow up the case, told several TV stations that Lebanese authorities hadn’t done enough to guarantee the release of the kidnapped pilgrims.
“We hope that we reach the solution that everyone is after,” he said.

When asked whether the families have the intention to kidnap Turkish citizens, Zugheib answered: “We do not kidnap, we host our guests.”

The protestors were expected to head to the Qatari embassy in Beirut’s Ain el-Tineh district later in the day as anti-riot police deployed in the area. But they suspended that move.
Zugheib said that they will hold talks with head of the General Security, Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim.

11 Lebanese pilgrims were kidnapped in the Syria’s Aleppo last May, when they were on their way from Iran to Lebanon.