Friday, June 6, 2014

Amnesty International Report 2000 - Lebanon

Full report available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aa103.html

Torture and ill-treatment

  • A student, Walid Achkar, secretary of the Free Patriotic Movement, which supports former President Michel 'Aoun, was arrested without warrant by the General Intelligence in Amioun in December and transferred to the Military Intelligence Centre in Kebbeh in Tripoli. There he was reportedly tortured for three hours by being beaten and forced to stand on one leg. He was transferred to Beirut and released without charge after four days' detention.
 

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