The Beau Rivage is a four-star luxury hotel on the Ramlet al-Baida beach in Beirut, Lebanon.
Prisoners held there were often tortured; some were "disappeared" and presumably executed.
The building was a feared symbol of Syrian power in Lebanon.
[1][2] As of August, 2008, the building again functions as a civilian luxury hotel, and is open for business.
[3] Beau Rivage by Claude El Khal is a 2003 short film about the atrocities committed in the hotel during the Syrian occupation.