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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April 3, 2011

Now Lebanon - Najjar calls for implementation and reform of prison laws - April 3, 2011

Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar told LBC television on Sunday that prisons can no longer accommodate the current amount of inmates.
Najjar said that the number of inmates in prisons must be decreased as prisons are overcrowded.
“Decisions made to increase the number of prisons must be implemented… and the parliament has to approve of the law that decreases a year in jail to 9 months.”
He also said that the law pertaining to pre-trial detentions must be amended.
Najjar’s statements come after a riot broke out in Roumieh Prison on Saturday when prisoners began protesting cell searches.
-NOW Lebanon

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