Interact with the tag "Roumieh Prison" ... Corona is chasing prisoners in Lebanon

Eighth newsletter - your bulletin (9/17/2020) monitored the interaction through the hashtag "Roumieh Prison", where activists called for a general amnesty for prisoners, in order to avoid what they described as the humanitarian catastrophe that the prison is witnessing in light of the outbreak of the epidemic.

Others called on the Lebanese government to take the necessary measures and measures to protect the prisoners as the least humanitarian duty if they are not released.

In a video clip from inside the courtyard of the convicts building in Roumieh prison, the prisoners demanded their release, and the political class held what they called the river of blood that would result from keeping them in their prison.

The head of the Lebanese Doctors Syndicate, Sharaf Abu Sharaf, said that the official of the health committee in Roumieh central prison informed the Syndicate of more than 200 cases of infection among prisoners with the Coronavirus.

He added - in a press conference - that the prison administration has taken all necessary precautions, in coordination with the concerned authorities, to contain the matter.

Activist Imad Bazzi tweeted, "It is unacceptable to blame prisoners for the outbreak of the disease, how can a prisoner adhere to social distancing in a prison with a capacity of 1500, but there are about 5,500 prisoners in terrible overcrowding! How can a prisoner wear a muzzle when he is barely able to breathe in the summer." .

Journalist Omar Harqous wrote, "In Roumieh prison # Lebanon, the number of people infected with the (Covid-19) virus has risen to 215. It is not enough for the Lebanese, the corruption of power, the explosions of ammonium nitrate materials imported by the owners of the weapons, nor the sectarian division inside the prison buildings ?!"

For his part, the President of the Progressive Socialist Party, MP Walid Jumblatt, tweeted, “In the meantime, the Corona is invading Roumieh prison as a result of neglect and overcrowding. The biggest crime was in rejecting the amnesty law, so I call for its approval in an exceptional way above all political or sectarian considerations.”

Representative Wiam Wahhab wrote, "I wished something crocodile (that a high official) has the authority ... to move to know the magnitude of the disaster in Roumieh prison. By God, you (you) are a group that does not deserve but to be the place of prisoners."

Activists' campaigns and their appeals to the authorities to heed the disaster of Roumieh prison were not enough to extinguish the heartburn of the mother of one of the prisoners, who appeared in a circulating clip in front of the prison calling for the release of her son.