The World - News from April 15, 1985
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Israel and its southern Lebanese militia allies are maintaining a secret prison just north of the Israeli border where captives are kept in appalling conditions and subjected to beatings and electric-shock torture, according to a former prisoner quoted by the Christian Science Monitor. The 70 or 80 prisoners are held in underground cells beneath the former Lebanese army barracks at Khiam, just north of the border, he said. An Israeli spokesman said the prison exists but is run solely by Israel’s militia ally, the South Lebanon Army.
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