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May 1, 2010

Daily Star - Sleiman donates 1 month's salary for prison reform, May 1, 2010

By The Daily Star

BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman has donated one month’s salary toward efforts to reform the country’s prisons, an MP said Friday. Zahle’s Oqab Saqr, a member of the Lebanon First bloc who is launching the national campaign, made the announcement at a news conference attended by representatives of Government ministries and NGOs. Saqr, who said the campaign was a “dream” that he intended to fulfill, and noted the donation fund would be managed by civil society groups, with the campaign also focusing on legal reforms. Saqr said Interior Minister Ziyad Baroud and General Ashraf Rifi of the Internal Security Forces had also contributed one month’s salary to the effort, while Prime Minister Saad Hariri had donated $200,000. – The Daily Star


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