Tueni also wants to see Lebanese prisoners released from Syrian jails.

According to the Syrian Human Rights Committee that there were 4,000 political prisoners held in Syrian jails in 2006.

In late 2011 rumours emerged that Abu Musab al-Suri had been released from a Syrian jail.

During the time Almalki was in a Syrian jail, he was not asked anything related to Syrian interests.

The report, "Human Rights in Syria," asserts that at least 7,500 political prisoners "languish in Syrian jails" without due process.

Mr. Zammar left in late October, to end up in a Syrian jail.

Human rights groups have put the number of Lebanese political prisoners in Syrian jails at anywhere between several hundred and several thousand.

Maher Arar is reported to have been freed from a Syrian jail.

And we still have a thousand-plus political prisoners in Syrian jails, including some very prominent ones, with reports of torture.

Christian leaders pushed for information on Lebanese political prisoners in Syrian jails, believing that most were Christian.