The Lawyers Committee issues its statement regarding the detainees in Saida, south of the capital Beirut, that the majority of the detainees were not allowed to make any contact or exercise any of their rights since their arrest on March 30 until after the intervention of the Defence Committee. It affirms that many detainees are subjected to excessive violence during their arrest and within the transport vehicles and places of detention, with the aim of getting information and punishing them. It also points out that the majority of those arrested were forcibly disappeared without knowing the direction and place of their detention for several days. Some of the detainees confirm that they were subjected to torture and beatings by the Military Intelligence especially through electrocution. A number of the detainees had to enter the hospital to receive treatment immediately after their release.