23 July 1980
☠Assassination of Riad Taha, head of the press syndicate
Beirut & suburbs#Assassinations
PartiesLebanese state (presidency, cabinet, parliament)
On 23 July 1980 the head of the press syndicate Riad Taha was shot dead near the Carlton hotel in Beirut; the perpetrators were never identified, and it came five months after the killing of Salim al-Lawzi, entrenching the targeting of journalists.