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Lokman Slim's widow calls for an international investigation into his assassination

The widow of Lokman Slim, the prominent Hezbollah critic shot dead in Lebanon, on his life

There's been widespread condemnation of the killing of the prominent Lebanese intellectual - Lokman Slim. His body was discovered inside his car in the south of the country on Thursday. He'd been shot dead. As a Shia who openly criticised Hezbollah - the Shia militant group and political party - he'd become used to threats, but he'd not bowed to them; living with his family in a Hezbollah stronghold in the suburbs of Beirut.

Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister - Hassan Diab, who came to power in 2019 with Hezbollah's backing - said "this heinous crime shall not pass without accountability".

Together with his wife - the filmmaker Monika Borgmann - Lokman Slim founded the UMAM Archive to document and raise awareness of Lebanon's violent past - with the goal of helping to ensure a more peaceful future for the country.

A day after her husband's death, Monika Borgmann has been speaking to Newshour.

(Photo: German Monika Borgmann, wife of assassinated activist and Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim, reads a local newspaper that wrote about her husband's death at her home in Beirut, Lebanon, 05 February 2021. Credit: EPA/Wael Hamzeh)

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