Appendix III: List of Defendants in the Gdeim Izik Case
Below is a list of the defendants, the charges for which they were convicted and the sentences received. The second column indicates which of the defendants had stated to the investigating judge he had been tortured. This list is based on the official records of those hearings and may not include all the detainees who made such claims.
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Name |
Allegations of torture or coercion made before the investigating judge (IJ), according to hearing minutes |
Charges on which convicted |
Sentence |
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Ahmed Sbaï |
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Membership in a criminal gang, violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
Life in Prison |
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Mohamed Bachir Boutanguiza |
Told IJ on Mar. 4, 2011, that both the police and the gendarmerie had tortured him. At trial, he said they had coerced him to sign statements without reading them |
Membership in a criminal gang, violence against security force member leading to death with intent, defiling a corpse |
Life in Prison |
|
Sidi Abdallah Abhah |
Told IJ on Mar. 18, 2011, that the police and the gendarmerie had tortured him. On April 11, 2011, he told the investigating judge that he had signed his police statement blindfolded and handcuffed |
Membership in a criminal gang, violence against security force member leading to death with intent, defiling a corpse |
Life in Prison |
|
Mohamed Bani |
|
Membership in a criminal gang, violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
Life in Prison |
Brahim Ismaïli |
Told IJ on June 17, 2011, that gendarmes interrogated him and made him sign his statement under beatings and insults |
Membership in a criminal gang, complicity in violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
Life in Prison |
|
Sidahmed Lemjayed |
Told IJ on May 5, 2011, that gendarmes tortured him |
Membership in a criminal gang, violence against security force member leading to death with intent, complicity in violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
Life in Prison |
|
Abdallah Lekhfawni |
Told IJ on Feb. 25, 2011, that police had tortured him for five days and sodomized him |
Membership in a criminal gang, violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
Life in Prison |
|
Abdeljalil Laâroussi |
Told IJ on Feb. 18, 2011, that persons he cannot identify arrested him and threatened to rape him and his wife, then handed him over to another group that broke his leg
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Membership in a criminal gang, violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
Life in Prison |
|
Hassanna Alia (in absentia) |
|
The court’s written verdict does not appear to list the charges for which it convicted Alia |
Life in Prison |
|
Naâma Asfari |
Told IJ on Jan. 12, 2011, that the police had tortured him |
Membership in a criminal gang, complicity in violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
30 years in prison |
|
Hassan Dah |
Told IJ on Apr. 29, 2011, that he was tortured, stripped and threatened with rape before he signed his statement |
Membership in a criminal gang and complicity in violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
30 years in prison |
|
Cheikh Banga |
Told IJ on Jan. 12, 2011, that the police had tortured him and forced him to sign his statement while blindfolded |
Membership in a criminal gang and complicity in violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
30 years in prison |
|
Mohamed Bourial |
|
Forming a criminal gang, violence against a security force member on duty leading to death |
30 years in prison |
|
Mohamed Tahlil |
Told IJ on May 13, 2011, that gendarmes tortured him and he signed his statement while blindfolded |
Membership in a criminal gang, complicity in violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
25 years in prison |
|
Mohamed Lamine Haddi |
Told IJ on Mar. 25, 2011, that he had been tortured; at another appearance on Nov. 25, 2011, he told the IJ he had put his fingerprint on his police statement while blindfolded |
Membership in a criminal gang and complicity in violence against security force member |
25 years in prison |
|
Abdallah Toubali |
Told IJ on Apr. 8, 2011, that the police tortured him and that he signed his statement blindfolded and naked |
Forming a criminal gang, violence against security force member leading to death with intent, contribution to and complicity in violence (charges were revised during the trial) |
25 years in prison |
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Hocine Zaoui |
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Forming a criminal gang, complicity in violence against security force member leading to death with intent, complicity in violence, defiling a corpse (charges were revised during the trial) |
25 years in prison |
|
Daich Daf |
Told IJ on Apr. 22, 2011, that he was tortured and signed his police statement while blindfolded |
Forming a criminal gang, complicity in violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
25 years in prison |
|
Mohamed Embarek Lefkir |
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Membership in a criminal gang, complicity in violence against security force member leading to death with intent (charges were revised during the trial) |
25 years in prison |
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Mohamed Khouna Babeit |
Told IJ on Oct. 25, 2011, that the police had tortured him while interrogating him; at a hearing on December 16, 2011, he said that he put his fingerprint on his police statement while blindfolded |
Membership in a criminal gang, violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
25 years in prison |
|
Larbi Elbakai |
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Membership in a criminal gang, violence against a security force member leading to death with intent |
25 years in prison |
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Mohamed el-Ayoubi |
Told IJ on Mar. 11, 2011, that a security force member he identified as “military” sodomized him in a tent at Gdeim Izik camp and that he was also tortured at the gendarmerie facility. |
Membership in a criminal gang, violence against a security force member leading to death with intent |
20 years in prison |
|
Bachir Khadda |
Told IJ on May 6, 2011, that police had tortured him and that he signed his police statement while blindfolded |
Entering into a criminal agreement, complicity in violence against security force member leading to death with intent |
20 years in prison |
|
Taki el-Machdoufi |
Told IJ on February 4, 2011, that at a gendarmerie facility, persons beat him and poured water and urine on him |
Inflicting harm with premeditation on members of the security forces on duty (charges were revised during trial) |
Sentenced to time served and released |
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Sidi Abderrahmane Zayou |
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Participation in inflicting harm with premeditation on members of the security forces on duty (charges were revised during trial) |
Sentenced to time served and released |
