(MENAFN) Human Rights Watch said on Monday that Lebanon must investigate the account of a prominent actor who says he was forcibly disappeared and tortured by state security forces last year.
Ziad Itani was arrested in November and held for several months, accused of "collaborating" with Israel, which is formally still at war with Lebanon.
He was released in March after it appeared that a top Lebanese security official had framed him, but the time he spent in detention haunted him, he told HRW.
The actor and writer said he was held for nearly a week in what appeared to be an informal jail, where men in civilian clothes punched and kicked him, forced him into stress positions and threatened to sexually assault him.
"There was no doctor who saw me, my body was all blue and I was spitting blood," he told the rights group.
"I couldn't speak properly."
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