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

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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)