Anwar Yassin (

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: أنور ياسين) is a former Lebanese detainee in

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prisons. He was both a member of the

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, the armed wing of the

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(LCP), and the broader

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(LNRF; aka ''Jammoul'') guerrilla alliance, since his early youth in the mid-1980s. He was detained by the

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(IDF) during an operation in

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, near the

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, in September 1987, when he was only 17 years old. He was released in an exchange operation between the Lebanese resistance led by

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and the IDF in January 2005 after spending 18 years in detention. Anwar Yassin ran for parliamentary elections representing the LCP in May 2005 and got 18,244 votes in

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in southern Lebanon,http://www.lebanonwire.com/prominent/elections2005/full_results.asp but lost to his opponents from the Hizbollah and

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parties. Since his release from prison, Yassin has been active in both the

Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth (ULDY) ( ar, اتحاد الشباب الديمقراطي اللبناني, transliterated: ''Ittihad ash-Shabab ad-Dimuqrati al-Lubnani''), also known as UJDL (the French abbreviation of ''Union de la jeunesse ...

and the LCP. He was elected as member of the central committee of the party in its 10th congress in March 2009. He also works as a reporter for the Lebanese television station New TV.

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Official party websiteUnion of Lebanese Democratic YouthJammoulNew TV
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yassin, Anwar Lebanese prisoners and detainees Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Lebanese Communist Party politicians

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