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They demand the release of their children, criminals or innocent, injured or recovered, and the day before yesterday morning, the country’s roads from south to north, passing through the capital Beirut and reaching Bekaa, witnessed in the sit-ins of the families of the prisoners, in a document to pressure the authorities to pass a general amnesty law and release their children. After the outbreak of the new Corona virus in several central prisons, especially “Roumieh” and “Zahle”.
Suburb
In this context, the families of the prisoners cut the old airport road in front of the headquarters of the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council in the suburb, in conjunction with the cut of the Al-Rehab-Bir Hassan road, demanding the approval of the law of general amnesty and chanting slogans and chants calling for the prompt approval of the law, especially with the outbreak of the Corona epidemic in the prisons, considering that “the health and life of your children is not a game in the hands of any of the officials ”, Resulting in a suffocating traffic jam that stretched from the airport road to Qasqas – Tayouneh.
Sidon and Ain al-Hilweh
As for the south, under the heading of “Continuous Escalation”, the families of the condemned and the detainees in the record of the facts crossed a sit-in, after the Friday prayer, in front of the Aisha Mosque, the Mother of the Believers in Sidon, to demand a general amnesty for the prisoners, then the sit-in marched to Plaza Elia Junction and made a stop in the middle of the road. As a result, traffic in both directions was cut off, with banners calling for a general amnesty for prisoners.
From Ain El-Helweh: until the full launch
At one point, the “Committee of Palestinian Prisoner Families” held a sit-in in front of the “Al-Nour” mosque in the Ain El-Helweh camp, coinciding with similar sit-ins in various Palestinian camps in Lebanon, to Demand their release from inside Lebanese prisons in light of emergency health conditions and the spread of the Corona virus and postponement. The trials, the road to the sit-in, has been closed for some time.
Tripoli
In Tripoli, families of Islamists detained in Roumieh prison blocked the road in front of the Tripoli Brigades and held a sit-in, demanding “the release of their children in Roumieh prison and the approval of a law on general amnesty, especially since the Corona virus is spreading widely among the prisoners, “and after the sit-in ended. The families of the detainees reopened the road.
Aftarishn road in front of the Serail of Tripoli to free their children in jails
Dahr Al-Baidar
At the same time, relatives of the prisoners closed the Dahr al-Baidar road in both directions, demanding the rapid passage of the general amnesty and the improvement of the conditions of their children in the face of the spread of the Corona virus in prisons, and raised banners denouncing the continuous delay in the approval of the amnesty, and another requested “the conclusion of a session to approve the general amnesty quickly.”
At the end of the sit-in, the road was reopened and the people continued their movement and moved to the entrance of the Zahle Men’s Prison, and they held a new sit-in in which they demanded to speed up the approval of the amnesty and improve the conditions of prisoners, faced with the spread of the Corona epidemic, and compassion for people with chronic diseases such as cancer and others.
A sit-in in Zahle prison
While the inmates of the Zahleh Men’s Prison held a peaceful protest inside the prison yard, in which they demanded that the officials “in the name of the country and in the name of humanity and mercy, look with compassion on our situation and our miserable condition, after the Corona epidemic killed and threatened us and left us without medicine, without the capacity for treatment or trial, or anything related to justice ”.
One of the prisoners gave a speech in which he demanded on behalf of all the inmates “the three chiefs look at their condition after the number of people affected by the epidemic reached 250 cases”, and said: “Our families will continue our move and they will not silence the injustice that has befallen us. It is true that we have committed mistakes and crimes, but the sin of those responsible is greater. Because they kill us in cold blood ”.
After the sit-in, the inmates refused to enter their cells due to the fulfillment of the demands they presented during the peaceful break in the prison yard, including the prompt issuance of the amnesty law and the taking of the appropriate measures to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus within the prison, amid the spread of internal security forces in charge of protecting the prison.
