Abu Ghida Issues Arrest Warrants against Abra-Linked Detainees
First Military Investigation Judge Riyad Abu Ghida on Tuesday followed-up on the cases of detainees involved in the clashes of the southern town of Abra, and issued arrest warrants against them.
"Abu Ghida interrogated six detainees in the presence of their defense lawyers,” the state-run National News Agency reported, adding that he issued arrest warrants against them.
The NNA noted: "The total number of arrest warrants issued so far has reached 12.”
Abu Ghida tasked the syndicate of lawyers to assign attorneys to detainees that do not have a defense team.
“The Judge also interrogated an army officer and three soldiers detained on charges of beating an arrested man linked to Salafist cleric Ahmed al-Asir,” the same source said.
"He issued arrest warrants against them for violating military instructions.”
An arrest warrant was issued on Monday against an army officer and four soldiers for attacking an arrested man involved in last June's clashes with the military institution in Abra, near the southern city of Sidon.
On Saturday, the Army Command announced detaining several soldiers over the matter.
"After viewing a video spread online that shows a number of soldiers beating and insulting a detainee, the military institution has arrested several troops involved in the incident,” the Army Command's Orientation Directorate said in a communique.
A Human Rights Watch report had criticized the police for “torturing vulnerable people being held in custody, including drug users, sex workers and homosexuals.”
The group urged Lebanon to uphold the Convention against Torture and create an independent body to monitor detention centers.
It also called on the government to "revise its Code of Criminal Procedure to better safeguard the rights of detainees and repeal laws criminalizing homosexuality, drug use and sex work."
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