Man tortured and forced to make "confession"

Fayez Karam, a senior official of the Free Patriotic Movement political party, was convicted on 3 September of providing information to Mossad (Israel’s intelligence agency) for payment and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with hard labor. He told the military court that convicted him that he had been tortured by officials of the Internal Security Forces (ISF) while detained following his arrest in August 2010 and forced to make a “confession” that he later retracted. He lodged an appeal.