Press: Czechs kidnapped in Lebanon still alive

Five Czechs who were kidnapped in Lebanon in July this year are still alive, Právo reported on Wednesday. Czech security agencies have received evidence of the five’s well-being from an intermediary, the daily said, adding that they are evidently still in Lebanon. A source told Právo that the kidnapping was linked to the detention of Lebanese man Ali Fayad, one of three people arrested in Prague on charges of planning to sell weapons and drugs to US agents posing as members of Colombia’s FARC. A Prague court recently ruled that they could be extradited to the US.

Author: Ian Willoughby