The Follow-Up Committee for the Support of the Lebanese Detainees in the Israeli Prisons is a non-governmental organization. It was established on the 24th of September 1992, and was derived from the “Meeting for the Support of the Ansar Detainees” established on the 4th of March 1983, after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

The Follow-Up Committee emerged from a National Conference that was held in defense of the detainees in the Khiam and Israeli detention camps. The establishment of this committee formed a major role in highlighting this cause in the international community and gaining support campaigns for Lebanese hostages held in Israeli detention
camps.

The Committee is a moral non-political organization, whose activities are focused on defending the hostages held in the Israeli camps and follow-up their health and social conditions after their release.

Committee's Goals:

• Defense of the hostages held in the Khiam and Israeli detention camps and work on their release.

• Raise their cause in the international meetings and conferences that deals with human rights.

• Organize meetings, protests and symposiums on the subject.

• Issue books, studies, documentation and updates to unveil the continuous violations of the basic human rights of the detainees by the Israeli forces.

• Communicate with the humanitarian communities and organizations, to inform and update them with detailed files on the sufferings of the detainee and about their health and social conditions.

• Work on the release of all Lebanese hostages held in the Israeli prison camps, or at least on allowing an initiation of a fair trial for them.

• Stop the torturing and all kinds of inhuman ill treatments inflicted on the detainees by the Israelis and their soldiers (whether Israelis or pro-Israelis) and work in the direction where international and humanitarian organizations may visit the detainees and follow-up on their conditions.

• Strive, alongside with the Human Right committees around the world, to release all Lebanese hostages held in the Israeli detention camps.

• Work on the social level in order to elevate the status of the detainees’ families and support them socially, where some families have lost their supporting provider(s) to Israeli detention camps.

• Work on the establishment of an organization that helps rehabilitates the victims of torture released from the detention camps.

• Work on establishing a league for the hostages who were released from the Israeli prison camps.

Committee's SetUp:

• The Follow-Up Committee for the Support of the Detainees is a social, non-governmental committee that includes lawyers, social activists, national personnel, organizations for women’s rights and
  former detainees released from the Israeli detention camps.

• The Committee is constituted of working members who are volunteers (executive office), and of a syndicate council that includes the different Lebanese citizens and constitutes the moral support for
  the Committee.

• The Committee membership is a moral commitment to the cause and to the Committee’s actions.

• The Committee obliges itself to the defense of human rights, liberal rights and democracy

• The Committee is not a political or bureaucratic party, and its nature does not rely on the conventional establishment of organizations.

• The Committee derives its principles from the international Human Right declarations and international organizations that fall in that direction.