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 6, 2011

Now Lebanon - Prison issue is complicated, says Ghanem - April 6, 2011

Lebanon First bloc MP Robert Ghanem on Wednesday said that the issue of prisons in Lebanon is complicated.
“The amnesty law that is demanded has its conditions and cannot include everyone,” Ghanem told Voice of Lebanon (93.3) radio.
The absence of trials for many convicted prisoners “is a complication that should be solved by accelerating the trials,” he added.
The responsibility for the foreign prisoners who are still being held despite fulfilling their sentences falls on the Interior and Justice Ministries, Ghanem also said.
Protests in Roumieh’s Prison have been ongoing for several days. Inmates at Roumieh – which is one of the biggest prisons in the Middle East and holds 4,500 inmates despite being built to hold only 1,500 – had been demanding amnesty and better conditions.
-NOW Lebanon

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