Lebanon: Harrowing Prison Conditions

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Roumieh prison, Roumieh, Lebanon, October 1, 2020. © 2020 Mohamed Azakir/Reuters (Beirut) – Prison conditions in Lebanon have dangerously deteriorated amid the country’s economic crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. Overcrowding has become the norm, health care is subpar, and the government’s failure to pay outstanding bills has endangered the food supply for the country’s prisons. Nearly 80 percent of Lebanon’s prison population is in pretrial detention, according to the caretaker Ministry of Interior. Roumieh prison near Beirut, Lebanon’s largest prison, was meant…

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