Proteste: 175 km lange Menschenkette im Libanon
Organisers said they were seeking 175,000 people to line Lebanon’s 175km coast. Though there were gaps, the numbers were nonetheless impressive.
Where crowds bunched, volunteers drove participants to more sparse areas.
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Fadia Hani, one the organisers of the human chain, told MEE that they did not expect to be so overwhelmed with people who wanted to participate.
“We had asked for participants to register, but more and more people started spontaneously showing up in different regions,” she said, adding that while the numbers were challenging to accommodate, the response was a sign of success itself.
Hani said the human chain linked the northern city of Tripoli to the southern city of Sour (Tyre) and that the idea came much like the uprising first started - people coming together against injustice.