The World - News from April 16, 1986
The State Department expressed strong concern to Israel over the mistreatment of a Lebanese-born American citizen held by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army. In an affidavit filed with the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Ghazi Dabaja, of Dearborn, Mich., said he was detained in early February in South Lebanon and held for five weeks in an Israeli-supervised detention center. During that time, he said, he was beaten, given electric shocks and burned with a cigarette.
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