Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Beshara Boutros al-Rahi, on Sunday, strongly condemned the arrest of prominent port blast case activist William Noon, saying his detention proved that the judiciary \u201chas become a tool for vengeance, malice and hatred and that security agencies are carrying out police state practices.\u201d<\/P>
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\u201cAren\u2019t they ashamed of themselves after they requested the arrest of William Noon, the search of his house and his imprisonment, not caring for his tragedies and the tragedies of his family?\u201d al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.<\/P>
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Turning to the presidential file, the Patriarch called on lawmakers to \u201cstop destroying the country and its institutions and impoverishing citizens\u201d and instead to \u201celect a president according to the constitution.\u201d<\/P>
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The new president \u201cmust come to give, not to take,\u201d he added.<\/P>
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\u201cIt is shameful that Arab and foreign countries are holding meetings and consulting in order to help Lebanon and elect a president while parliament is preventing voting, hiding behind the heresy of securing a prior agreement on the president,\u201d al-Rahi went on to say.<\/P>
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\u201cThey are stabbing our democratic parliamentary system in the heart,\u201d the patriarch decried.<\/P>
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Source: National News Agency – Lebanon<\/P>
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