A former policeman with Lebanon's Internal Security Forces Elias Tanious has filed a lawsuit against four Syrian officers on kidnapping on nine-year imprisonment charges.
The lawsuit identified the Syrian officers as Jameh Jameh, who was head of security at the Beau Rivage Hotel in Beirut during the Syrian tutelage over Lebanon and Kamal Youssef, better known as Nabi Youssef, Col. Deeb Zaytouni and Col. Barakat al-Ish, in addition to Ghassan Alloush, a Syrian native who became a naturalized Lebanese citizen.
It charged the officers snatched him from a friend's house in Beirut's Talet al-Khayyat neighborhood the night of Dec. 15, 1991 and took him to Beau Rivage where Jameh was waiting for him.
Tanious told the story of his torture to the daily An-Nahar.
"I was beaten almost to death," Tanious recalled, before moving him to Anjar where he fell into the hands of Nabi Youssef.
"There, I wished I would rather die than go through all these phases of torture," he said.
Tanious said torture included pulling out his nails, the wheel and the electric chair.
The former policeman said that from Anjar he was taken to Mazzeh prison in Syria and then to other Syrian jails after he was tried in a "mock court" in Jdeidit Yabous where a number of Syrian officers, including Zaytoni, were present.
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