BEIRUT: Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi visited the detention center at the Justice Palace in Beirut Friday and urged police and security personnel to respect detainees.
“Prisoners are human beings like all of us and we all should respect their rights and dignity,” said Qortbawi, addressing the Internal Security Forces personnel who accompanied him on his tour of the facility.
Qortbawi also held a conversation with the detainees and vowed to speed up their trials as they are being temporarily held in custody.
“I am not a judge and I don’t have anything to do with the matters you are being tried for, but I will ask judges to speed up the probes and your trials so that your precautionary detention period won’t be long,” he told the prisoners.
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