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Lebanon: Act Now on Steps to Prevent Torture
LBN - News | 05 November 2008
Country’s Report on Torture Is Seven Years Overdue
Lebanon should take concrete and public measures to stop the use of torture in detention facilities and submit a long-overdue report on the subject to the United Nations, a group of eight Lebanese and international human rights organizations said today.
Lebanon: Convictions as a result of "confessions" extracted under torture
LBN - News | 21 October 2008
Alkarama has received additional information about nine people about whom it had addressed, in September 2007, a communication to the Special Rapporteur on torture. Alkarama thus informed the Special Rapporteur on 16 October 2008 that these persons were tried by a military court on the basis of confessions obtained under torture.
Lebanon: Torture, ill-treatment and prosecution of civilians before military courts
LBN - News | 17 October 2008
Alkarama submitted 13 cases of people being tortured in Lebanon to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, on 15 October 2008. All were arrested as part of the tragic events of Nahr El Bared which took place from May to September 2007, and which opposed the regular Lebanese armed forces to an armed group entrenched in the Nahr El Bared refugee camp, located in the northern suburbs of Tripoli.
Lebanon: Letter of Alkarama and other NGOs to the Minister of the Interior about the situation in prisons.
LBN - News | 08 October 2008
A month after the decision to open an investigation into allegations of corruption and mistreatment of prisoners, revealed by the television channel "NewTV, seven Lebanese and international human rights NGOs have sent today a letter to the Minister of Interior of Lebanon, Mr. Ziad Baroud, to ask that investigations be also ordered about deaths of prisoners and cases of torture and ill-treatment in Lebanese prisons and detention centers.