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Baabda Hosts Security Meeting to Address Prison Overcrowding

This is Beirut, 18/07 15:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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President Joseph Aoun chaired a ministerial and security meeting on Friday morning at the Presidential Palace, primarily focused on the situation in Lebanese prisons and the aggravating issue of overcrowding. The participants discussed urgent measures to address the saturation of detention facilities, particularly concerning judicial procedures, ...

Trials Are Launched Inside Roumieh Prison

This is Beirut, 03/06 21:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Lebanon launched its first court sessions inside Roumieh Prison on Tuesday. This marks a significant move aimed at accelerating legal proceedings and addressing severe prison overcrowding. Minister of Justice Adel Nassar confirmed the launching in a statement, following a joint visit with Minister of Interior and Municipalities Ahmad al-Hajjar to ...

'Waited for Death': Ex-Detainees Recount Horrors of Sudan's RSF Prisons

This is Beirut, 31/03 09:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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For almost two years, Emad Mouawad had been repeatedly shuttled from one Sudanese paramilitary-run detention centre to another, terrified each day would be his last. The 44-year-old Egyptian merchant spent years selling home appliances in neighbouring Sudan before fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed his Khartoum home ...

Unless the Syrian Regime Is Involved…

Johnny Kortbawi, 2024-12-13 18:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Syria Lebanon Prisons

The fall of the tyrannical regime in Damascus has unleashed decades of repressed anger – anger we’ve been holding on to for fifty years, as we endured Syria’s constant interference in Lebanese politics, along with the vile assaults that accompanied it at all levels. The Assad regime, with its allies, worked tirelessly to thwart the ...

Syrian Prisons: Programmed Dehumanization

David Sahyoun, 2024-12-13 17:42 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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Tortured and broken in the prisons of the Syrian regime, detainees are stripped of their humanity. Devastating traumas and challenges in reintegration: psychoanalysis and the humanities shed light on the mechanisms of inevitable dehumanization and outline the difficult paths of reconstruction, at the crossroads of the personal and the ...

Saydnaya: The Suffering of Families Who Still Have Hope

Elie Ziadé, 2024-12-13 14:00 - Reading : less than a minute

Syria Prisons

The human slaughterhouse at Saydnaya, the Assad clan's prison 30 kilometers from Damascus, is still torturing Syrians, despite the fall of the regime last Sunday. Hundreds of families have no news of their loved ones, in some cases for more than a decade. In spite of everything, some try to search for clues to obtain proof of life... or death.

33 Years Later: Souhail Hamawi's Return to Life

Rayan Chami, 2024-12-12 00:30 - Reading : less than a minute

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Souheil Hamawi recounts his 32-year ordeal in Syrian prisons, a journey of unimaginable suffering, resilience, and eventual liberation. From his abduction in 1992 to his emotional return in 2024, his story sheds light on the horrors he endured and the hope he ultimately reclaimed.

The Missing and Detained in Syria: Between Confusion and Inaccurate Estimates

Élie-Joe Kamel, 2024-12-10 19:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Lebanon Syria Prisons

An independent emergency committee has been established by the national commission for missing and forcibly disappeared persons to investigate the fate of these individuals. The number of people reported missing during the Lebanese Civil War was previously estimated at 17,415. Additionally, between 200 and 700 Lebanese were believed to have been ...

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