Lebanese citizen detained and tortured

On January 28th, 2010, Mahmoud Rafeh, accused of collaboration with Israel, was transferred from Roumieh central prison to the detention center of the Ministry of Defense where he was held for 6 days for a “complementary investigation” regarding the complaints of torture before the military court. Indeed, Mahmoud Rafeh, who was detained from June 6th, 2006 until March 2009 at the Ministry of Defense, complained of having signed his confessions under torture by the army intelligence services. The latter would have asked him if he knew the perpetrators and their rank. During this “interrogation”, he was kept sitting for 6 days in a corridor, handcuffed and blindfolded. He was not taken to his hearing before the military court, initially scheduled on January 29th, 2010. His lawyer had not been informed of this transfer to the Ministry of Defense. According to the available information, the military court did not order this interrogation and was not even informed of it.