Yusuf al-Hani

Yusuf al-Hani (also anglicised as Joseph Hani; died 5 April 1916) was a Lebanese Maronite Arab resident of Beirut hanged by the Ottoman Empire for communicating with French diplomat François Georges-Picot in 1913.

These were broken on 12 November 1914 when an Ottoman army unit, guided by Zalzal, broke in and removed a quantity of paperwork including Picot's secret documents.

[2] In early 1916, frustrated with the lack of Ottoman success in the war, Djemal ordered the arrest of some of those residents of Syria known to have corresponded with the French.

[1] Al-Hani, the sole signer of the March 1913 letter who had remained in the Ottoman Empire during the war, was among those arrested.

On 6 May Djemal hanged fourteen more men in Beirut and seven in Damascus, seventeen of these were Muslims and the remainder Christians.