Riots erupted at Roumieh
Prison on Tuesday and inmates set belongings on fire as the Internal Security
Forces managed to successfully escort a 3-member gang out of the facility.
"The ISF is now in
control of the juvenile ward in Roumieh and has referred the mutineering
inmates to investigation," Future TV quoted security sources as saying.
For its part, LBCI
television said "the security operation in Roumieh is over, after the
three inmates were captured."
Earlier, the ISF
announced that the inmates Rabih M. and Hussein M. were escorted out from the
juvenile ward. Some inmates were also captured for resisting security forces.
The protests had broken
out at the juvenile ward as security forces tried to detain the three inmates
who are accused of blackmailing inmates and civilians.
Al-Jadeed television
published photographs of prisoners setting fire in the ward.
Security forces used
tear gas to disperse the protesters and some cases of suffocation were
reported, said MTV.
The ISF unit that
entered the juvenile ward to detain the gang had stressed that it would
accomplish its mission according to a judicial order.
Negotiations were held
between inmates and an ISF officer to contain the situation, according to media
reports.
Roumieh is the largest
and most overcrowded of Lebanon's prisons.
It has a capacity for
1,500 inmates, but over 4,000 are imprisoned there.
Interior Minister Nuhad
al-Mashnouq stated in March that he will exert efforts to renovate the facility
and improve the conditions there.
Protests frequently erupt
at Roumieh given the poor conditions and the overcrowding.Naharnet
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