Nurfika Osman & Farouk Arnaz – Muhammad Jibriel, who is suspected of having links to the July suicide bombings at Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, claimed in a statement sent to the Jakarta Globe on Friday that he had been tortured by the police's elite antiterror police squad.

Jibriel said in the statement – sent via Arrahmah, an organization that publishes articles in support of suicide bombings – that the torture occurred on Wednesday at around 2 p.m. He claimed that antiterror officers from Densus 88 came to his cell at Mobile Brigade headquarters in Depok and tortured him.

The officers, he said, handcuffed him and put head restraints on him, which were then tightened with such force that bruises and swelling resulted. His protests, the statement claims, were dismissed by one of the officers, who told him: "You're a prisoner! Don't ask for anything."

Jibriel also claimed that this was not the first time he had been tortured by Densus 88, saying that since he was detained four months ago, the violence had been continuous.

The suspect also claimed to have been ill treated when he was brought to the South Jakarta District Court for the submission of his police dossier.

The head of Densus 88, Brig. Gen. Tito Karnavian, denied any ill treatment of terror suspects. Tito also told the Globe that police dossiers for several suspects in the hotel bombers were ready. "All the dossiers have been completed except for the recently arrested Baharudin Latif and his son Ata," Tito said.

He said dossiers had been completed on Aries Sutanto and Indra Arif Hermawan – brothers who were arrested shortly before the raid on a house in Temanggung, Central Java, in August that led to the death of the alleged field coordinator for the hotel bombings, Ibrohim. Two other suspected field coordinators – Fajar Firdaus and Sonny Jayadi – were arrested in Bekasi.

Others suspects whose dossiers are ready include Putri Munawaroh, who was arrested in September during a raid in Solo that left suspected terrorist mastermind Noordin M Top dead; Amir Abdullah, an alleged assistant to top; and Saudi national Ali Mohammad Abdillah, who is accused of helping to finance the July bombings.

Police have killed or arrested 24 people thought to have been connected to the bombings.

Jibriel's father, Abu Jibriel, reported the alleged torture of his son to the National Commission on Human Rights in September.

Police say they suspect Muhammad Jibriel of helping to channel money from abroad to fund the bombings. They say a courier from the Middle East, who returned to his home country shortly after the bombings, hand-delivered the cash to Jibriel.

Abu Jibriel and his lawyer deny all accusations against Muhammad Jibriel.