Two Soldiers Charged with Dereliction of Duty over Prisoner's Death

The military prosecutor charged on Tuesday two soldiers with negligence and dereliction of duty that caused the death of an inmate at Lebanon’s largest prison.

The state-run National News Agency said that Judge Saqr Saqr, the state commissioner the military court, issued the charges against the soldiers over the death of Hussein Abdullah Sbaity at Roumieh prison earlier this month.

The agency did not identify the guards.

But it said that Saqr referred the two suspects to the first military examining magistrate, Judge Riad Abu Ghida.

NNA said on April 5 that Sbaity died shortly after he was transferred to hospital.

He had long been suffering from stomach-related problems, it added.

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