On the evening of 31 March 2010, Lebanese authorities released Fadi Sabunah after nearly two years arbitrary detention. The investigative judge responsible for case related to the events that occurred in the Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in 2008. During his 18 month detention, Fadi Sabunah was detained incommunicado and tortured for 35 consecutive days. He was then subsequently interrogated and tried by both civilian and military judges. He was accused of belonging to a terrorist cell responsible for attacks which targeted army units in Al-'Abda in the north of Lebanon, in May 2008, and in Tripoli between August and September 2008.

Today, 9 April 2010, the Justice Council Court concluded the trials of Mustafa Sayw and Kamal Al-Na'san; two of four persons whose cases Alkarama brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur on Torture on 27 October 2009. It is feared that confessions extracted under torture were used against them in the trial. Among the four individuals whose cases Alkarama sent to the Special Rapporteur on Torture there was also Kamal Al-Na'san's brother, Malik Al-Na'san, who was freed after nine months in detention.

On his way home from class on 18 April 2009, Maher Sukkar, a 29 year-old Palestinian refugee, was arrested by agents of the Information Branch of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) in Sabra, Beirut. He was held incommunicado for a total of 18 days until 6 May 2009. At first held at the ISF Directorate, he was then moved to several detention centers until being brought to the Ministry of Defence in Yarzeh on 28 April 2009. He was then subjected to two days of brutal torture aimed at extracting false confessions from him. He was then kept until 6 May 2009 at Military Police barracks in Baabda to allow the visible traces of torture to disappear. He was finally taken to Roumieh central prison, where he remains today and is currently being tried before Beirut's Military Tribunal.

General Security Held Nizar Saghieh's British Passport Until Minister Intervened

Beirut - The Lebanese government should investigate the seizure of a human rights lawyer's passport by General Security, a group of 16 Lebanese and international human rights organizations said today.