Lebanese prisoners detained in Syria: A priority question to raise before the Syrian authorities

21/07/2005
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Alternative report of the SOLIDA movement (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily)- July 2005

The SOLIDA movement (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) feels sharply concerned by the situation of Lebanese detained in solitary confinement in the Syrian prisons.

Since 1976, Syria resorts to kidnapping on the Lebanese territory.
Nowadays, we assess that at least 200 Lebanese are still detained in Syria without having been judged, in solitary confinement and suffering from inhuman conditions.

To give one example of conditions of detention suffered by these prisoners: in 1998, a Lebanese released from of a Syrian prison declared that he blinded himself in the eyes in order to be released and to escape his torturers.

Their families, gathered together in the Committee of families of Lebanese prisoners detained in Syria, do not succeed in getting any answer concerning the situation of their relatives extradited in Syria.

The Syrian authorities remain silent on the issue.

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