BEIRUT, Sept 9 (AFP) - A trainee woman journalist
and two
Lebanese men were abducted last week by Israeli security agents from
a village in southern Lebanon, a Lebanese human rights organisation
said
Thursday.
Cosette Ibrahim, 25, a graduate of the Lebanese
University, was
seized on September 2 in her home village of Rmeish, in the
central
part of the Israeli-occupied Lebanese border strip, the follow-up
committee for Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails said in a
statement
here.
She was taken along with De Gaulle Bou Taleb, 40, and
Samir
Khiameh, 22, the committee said.
It added that she is
being held in Khiam, Israel's main jail in
the occupied zone, for "refusing
to cooperate with the Israeli army
of occupation."
She was
"suffering from depression after being subjected to
physical and
psychological torture during interrogation by Israeli
agents," it said.
She is "accused of writing articles about the occupied zone,
and
giving the Lebanese army information about Israeli troop movements,"
in the zone, the committee said, describing her detention as a
"flagrant
violation of human rights and an attack on the press."
It has
sent appeals for her release to UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan and Lebanese
President Emile Lahoud.
Similar appeals have been made by
Lebanese associations for
human rights groups, and by the chairman of the
journalists' union,
Melhem Karam.
More than 140 Lebanese
prisoners are held in Khiam. Some have
been detained there without trial for
more than 10 years. Conditions
in the jail have frequently been condemned by
human rights
organisations, including Amnesty International.