Video: Security agents try to run over protestors

byHabib Battah
Jun 29, 2013

I witnessed this scene earlier this afternoon as protestors were trying to occupy the street. The young woman was injured and taken away in an ambulance.

I caught a glimpse of the passenger in the car when he stepped out for a moment to yell at the protestors before the incident. He was wearing a full military uniform, but a darker tint of green than normal infantry men.

Remember all this happened directly facing the police station and the police just stood there and watched.

More to come…

Update: A number of protestors saw the driver and are identifying him as one of the bodyguards who attacked them last night.

Update: Emotional moments as Detainees released and new video from the scene.

Habib Battah

Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.