Lebanon: Further information on Medical concern/Torture/Unfair trial.

Index Number: MDE 18/010/2002
Date Published: 15 August 2002
Categories: Lebanon, Middle East And North Africa

Amnesty International fears that Ahmad Abu Ghosh, Masjad Ghayth,‘Ali al-Hamawi and Fadi Taybah may now be at great risk of torture and ill-treatment. They are held in incommunicado detention at the Ministry of Defence Detention Centre in al-Yarze, where certain categories of detainees are routinely tortured and ill-treated as punishment or as a means of extracting confessions.