Human Rights Watch has made a detailed submission in connection with the pending Uniuversal Periodic Review of Lebanon. Excerpt:
"Lebanese officials have also continued to use the military courts’ jurisdiction over civilians as a means to intimidate or punish them for political activism or to stamp out dissent. Those who have stood trial at military courts describe incommunicado detention, interrogations without a lawyer, ill-treatment and torture, the use of confessions extracted under torture, decisions issued without an explanation, seemingly arbitrary sentences, and a limited ability to appeal." [Footnotes omitted.]
HRW recommends, among other thinbgs, that Lebanon "[e]nact a law to remove civilians from the military court’s jurisdiction entirely."
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