Lebanon: Further information on possible prisoners of conscience/Fear of Torture/Legal concern

Índice: MDE 18/009/2002
Fecha de publicación: 11 julio 2002
Categorías: El Líbano, Oriente Medio y Norte de África

Tawfiq al-Hindi, a leading member of the unauthorized Lebanese Forces Party (LFP), was sentenced to 15 months in prison by the Military Court of Appeal on 11 July. At a separate trial on 10 July, the Military Court in Beirut acquitted Nadim Latif, a leading member of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), of all charges including "defamation of the Syrian Army".