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Lebanese citizen detained and tortured
Reporter: sophie
Date of incident:
Sunday, January 1, 2006
Detailed description of violation:
The army intelligence service arrested Mahmoud Qassem Rafeh in 2006 on suspicion of being an Israeli agent and subsequently detained him at the MOD, where he was allegedly tortured and forced to sign a confession. Rafeh was detained for approximately two years before he was permitted access to a lawyer; at year's end he was in prison awaiting trial.