Conflict Incident Report

The Internal Security Forces said in a statement Wednesday that it rescued a Bangladeshi national after he had been kidnapped and tortured.

The ISF said that on Aug. 5, Bangladeshi national Aa.Aa., born in 1977, was kidnapped in Jounieh while he was on his way to work. His captors took him to an unknown location, demanding a ransom.

“The ISF’s Information Branch ... in less than 48 hours was able to identify one of the captors and the car that was used, a red-colored Hyundai,” the statement said.

On Aug. 7, in Kesrouan’s Ghadir, suspect F.S., an Indian national born in 1985, was arrested after an Information Branch unit raided his house. F.S. then informed police of Aa.Aa.’s location.

“The unit raided the place in Kfar Hbab [in the town of Ghazir] and arrested H.S. and D.K., both Indian nationals born in 1989, and managed to free [Aa.Aa], who was found in a bathroom blindfolded with his hands cuffed,” the statement said.

The detainees confessed to the crime during investigations, and said they carried out the kidnapping with other accomplices with the aim of being paid a ransom, according to the ISF.

Aa.Aa. said in his testimony that his captors tortured him to pressure himself and a friend, whom the kidnappers presumably contacted, to pay the ransom.