The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization in Beirut that was established by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) in 2006. SOLIDA has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human violations.

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January 6, 2010

Daily Star - Prisoners in Bekaa jail stage mutiny - January 06,2010

BEIRUT: A mutiny was reported inside a prison in the Bekaa town of Zahle Monday night after a number of inmates set fire to mattresses and cut electric wires, resulting in a power outage. Media reports on Tuesday said prisoners Abdullah al-Yamani and Mohsem al-Husseini cut the veins of their wrists in protest. They said two other inmates suffocated from smoke inhalation. One of them was treated inside the jail, while the other was rushed to hospital for treatment. – The Daily Star

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