AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Media Advisory

AI Index: MDE 18/012/2007 (Public)

News Service No: 195

10 October 2007

Invitation to press conference

Amnesty International launches report on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

Amnesty International is holding a press conference to launch its new report Exiled and Suffering: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The report looks at the situation of the many thousands of Palestinian refugees, many of whom have been born and raised in Lebanon, and yet who remain subject to various

restrictions which deny themaccess to their full range of human rights.

When: 11:00 am Wednesday 17 October2007

Where: Press Syndicate, Rawche, near the Qatari embassy

Who: Ahmad Karaoud, Head of Amnesty International's Regional office for the Middle East and North Africa in Beirut

Neil Sammonds, Researcher specialising on Lebanon at the International Secretariat of Amnesty Internationalin London

Sherif el-Sayed Ali, Head of the Refugee and Migrants' Rights team at the International Secretariat of Amnesty Internationalin London

Amnesty International speakers will be available for interviews in Arabic, French and English.

For more information, please contact Nicole Choueiry, Middle East and North Africa Press Officer on number +961 (0)3 27 88 37 or +44 7831 640 170, or by email: nchoueir@amnesty.org

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