Presidential candidate Chibli Mallat made the following statement: 'I am pleased to announce the publication of Ambassador Ann Dismorr's important book on Turkey. When she was posted in Lebanon, Ann Dismorr graced the defenders of democracy and human rights with her support, and we are grateful mostly for her energy and Prime Minister Selim Hoss' for the moratorium on the death penalty during President Hoss' tenure as Prime Minister.

Chibli Mallat is a human rights lawyer, scholar of Islamic law and a Lebanese presidential candidate. He is currently a professor of law and politics at the S.J. Quinney School of Law at the University of Utah and EU Jean Monnet chair in European law at Université St. Joseph, Beirut. Professor Mallat has played an integral role in several major international legal campaigns, including the Sabra and Shatila case in Belgium that indicted Ariel Sharon for crimes against humanity.

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Lebanese Presidential candidate joined distinguished colleagues in congratulating the peoples and leader of Pakistan in their signal victory in parliamentary elections. "It is important", added Mallat, "for the massive parliamentary majority to undo the coerced extension of the presidency of Pervez Musharraf, and if necessary bring him to judicial account for the violation of basic freedoms, and for his Emuile Lahoud-style responsibility in the death of Benazir Bhutto and the curtailing of the democratic political process since his access to power in 1999".