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Lawyer Muhammad Sablouh, who is the lawyer for several Islamist detainees in Roumieh prison, said that “more than 3 months ago, the decision was issued to transfer 20 prisoners from building B to Roumieh prison with disciplinary punishment to the building C, where they were subjected to the most heinous types of beatings, torture, cruel treatment, humiliation and deprivation of them. Of food, but little, and deprive them of tea and hot drinks when it is cold. “
He added that “the prisoners’ beds were filled with mold due to the leakage of water into their rooms, and above all claiming their rights, security personnel entered them threatening them with beatings and humiliation, for which some of them swore through tears that he had to kiss the shoes of the official in charge of the prison administration. “
He said: “I took this news to the officials, who denied the matter and promised to follow up, but to no avail. The National Human Rights Commission was formally informed and promised to follow up, but the deadly administrative routine has prevented it until the day of today fulfill its function “.
He stressed that, “today I have been informed of the prisoners and their families that they can no longer bear this inhuman treatment, and threaten to burn their rooms and themselves if their case is not attended, and they are treated humanely like other prisoners.”
Sablouh called on human rights organizations in Lebanon to act urgently to save the prisoners, and went to the Ministry of the Interior to assume responsibility and address this tragedy, considering the aforementioned as informing the discriminatory Prosecutor’s Office for open a transparent investigation of this crime and work to punish the criminals.
