Hundreds on Hunger Strike in Lebanon Prison as Amnesty Stalled
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About 400 prisoners in a Lebanese prison have been on hunger strike for 11 days, after having been stopped at the general amnesty they expected to benefit from
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The Frontier PostHundreds on hunger strike in Lebanon prison as amnesty stalled
BEIRUT: Hundreds of inmates in a Lebanese prison have been on hunger strike for 10 days over the stalled implementation of an amnesty law supposed to benefit them, a judicial official told AFP on Tuesday. Lebanon’s parliament last month passed the sweeping amnesty law, the first since 1991 after the country’s civil war. The legislation is meant to help thousands of prisoners and wanted people, many of them Islamists. But a group of lawmakers has…
More than 400 prisoners in Rumieh continue their hunger strike for the twelfth day, protesting against the freeze on the amnesty law. The number of critical health cases has risen to 32, while a number of detainees have been taken to hospitals on an emergency basis.
The prisoners' strike at Roumieh prison enters its eleventh consecutive day, a protest by more than 400 inmates against the non-implementation of the general amnesty law, whose effects were frozen following an appeal filed against it before the Constitutional Council by MPs from the Free Patriotic Movement. On the ground, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate daily due to the worsening health and living conditions. […] The post Ro…
The prisoners' strike at Roumieh prison entered its eleventh consecutive day, a protest by more than 400 inmates against the non-implementation of the general amnesty law, whose effects were frozen following an appeal filed against it before the Constitutional Council by MPs from the Free Patriotic Movement. On the ground, the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate daily due to the worsening health and living conditions...
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