Kataeb Party leader Samy Gemayel on Friday marked the twentieth anniversary of the assassination of prominent journalist and MP Gebran Tueni, paying tribute to what he described as a fearless voice against Syrian tutelage and a symbol of Lebanon’s struggle for freedom and sovereignty.

In a post on X, Gemayel said Tueni represented “a voice that fearlessly confronted tutelage, and a pen that paid with its life for Lebanon’s freedom,” adding that his killing formed part of “the terror machine used by the Assad regime and its proxies to break the will of the Lebanese people.”

Tueni, a leading figure in the anti-Syrian opposition and a central voice in the 2005 Cedar Revolution, was assassinated on December 12, 2005, in a car bombing in Beirut. 

Gemayel said that “with that regime collapsed, Tueni's oath remains alive: freedom is stronger than repression, and sovereignty cannot be killed.”

He pledged that the Kataeb Party would continue the political path for which Tueni and other martyrs of the Cedar Revolution sacrificed their lives, including Gemayel’s own brother Pierre Gemayel, who was assassinated in 2006.

“Our promise is to continue the path for which Gebran, Pierre, and the other martyrs of the Cedar Revolution gave their lives,” he wrote.