Lebanon: Samir Gea'gea' and Jirjis al-Khouri: Torture and unfair trial

Lebanon: Samir Gea'gea' and Jirjis al-Khouri: Torture and unfair trial

Index Number: MDE 18/003/2004
Date Published: 23 November 2004
Categories: Lebanon, Middle East And North Africa, Middle East And North Africa

This report describes Amnesty International's concerns about the pre-trial detention, the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and unfair trials of Samir Gea'gea' (leader of the banned Lebanese Forces (LF)) and Jirjis al-Khouri, a member of the LF. In 1994 they were arrested along with scores of LF members after the bombing of the Sayidat al-Najat (Lady of Deliverance) church in Junieh, in February 1994, in which 10 people died.