BEIRUT: Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk denied Friday a newspaper claim that an Arab woman was detained and held at a Hezbollah-controlled prison on the lower floors of Beirut airport.
A statement by the Interior Ministry said the results of an investigation ordered by Machnouk revealed that “the report published in the paper is baseless.”
The statement said Machouk had ordered security agencies, including General Security and Internal Security Forces, to launch an immediate probe after pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat alleged that Hezbollah maintained a prison two stories below the airport facility in which its members detained, interrogated and tortured people.
The report quotes an unnamed woman who lives in Jeddah as saying that she was held for three days in the underground prison and interrogated by people who introduced themselves as Hezbollah’s special security.
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