Security Forces End Roumieh Riot amid Torture Scandal
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Security forces succeeded on Tuesday in containing a riot that has erupted at Roumieh Prison, two days after a torture scandal hit the facility.
The forces restored order at the jail after listening to the inmates' demands, said MTV.
Media had reported earlier that the prisoners had broken down the doors of their cells and beat other inmates.
The rioters at the facility's Block A reportedly demanded better conditions. Among them are convicted drug traffickers from the Shamas family.
Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq's adviser on prisons, Brig. Gen. Monir Shaaban, and several top security officials rushed to the facility to hear their demands.
An ISF special panthers unit was also deployed near Roumieh on the outskirts of Beirut to stop the riot from going out of control.
On Sunday, online video clips showed prison guards beating Islamists in Roumieh's Block B.
The video drew sharp condemnation and accusations among politicians from the rival March 8 and 14 alliances on who stood behind the leak.
The clips show a room full of detainees stripped down to their underwear. In one clip, a guard beats a detainee on his back with what looks like a green hose. He yells "keep quiet" at the screaming detainee.
Another clip shows a second guard taunting and insulting a bearded detainee while hitting him. The detainee begs for mercy and later a voice, presumably of another guard, is heard ordering the inmate to kiss the man beating him. He is kicked in the face when he attempts it.
The detainees shown were handcuffed behind their back while squatting on a flooded floor.
G.K./M.T.
23 June 2015, 15:16
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crush those who riot, and nobody cares if they get some whooping, especially when they're murderers and terrorists. can't believe the first and only time those m14ers said anything about torture is when takfiri scum gets a little beating (including rifi, who headed torture center for years, how ironic)
23 June 2015, 15:26
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little reminder of the context which led to the beating of the rioting inmates that rifi is crying crocodile tears over:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Apr-30/296316-decision-to-build-more-jails-first-in-decades-machnouk.ashx
"The footage indicated that the prisoners instigated the riots by assaulting guards as they brought new inmates into the building. They stole keys, opened cells, and then used tools to break the joints of all cell doors.
They then attacked the other security officers in the building, stomping on them and beating them with sticks as they fell to the ground, according to the footage."
"Two prisoners were seen moving into the prison’s main hall, attacking and bringing in an unarmed guard, the minister explained."
"Nineteen policemen were wounded. There was one case of suffocation, two guards suffered second-degree burns, and 11 others were subject to severe beatings, he said."
23 June 2015, 15:27
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"“They wanted to remain in control, without any cell doors or restrictions, like they used to be in block B,” Machnouk said. “They want to go back to whipping and torturing people, to ruling the way they did back in there.”"
I'm against torture, obivously there is no point to it and it's completely immoral, but when prisonners attack, beat up, burn and suffocate guards they deserve whatever they get, and nobody should be giving two cents about those thugs, they're actually getting the education they never had.
23 June 2015, 15:59
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the only known terrorists are those residing in dahieh, baalback and the south.
23 June 2015, 16:03
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the only riots are those of your brethern, the Shammas drug dealers
حصلت حركة احتجاج في مبنى المحكومين في سجن رومية قبل ظهر الثلثاء، ويجري حاليا تسوية الموضوع حيث ارسل وزير الداخلية مستشاره لشؤون السحون العميد منير شعبان الى السجن للاستماع الى مطالب المساجين ومن بينهم تجار مخدرات من آل شمص، علما ان المساجين كانوا قد قاموا بأعمال تمرد وشغب.
اشارة الى ان قوة احتياط من الفهود والقوة الضاربة تم ارسالها الى سجن روميه للتدخل في حال تطورت الامور داخل مبنى المحكومين.
23 June 2015, 16:10
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أعادت دورية من الجيش فتح طريق الاوزاعي امام حركة السير بعدما عمد عدد من اهالي المساجين المحكومين في سجن روميه الى قطعها لمدة نصف ساعة تضامنا مع تحرك المساجين في روميه.
23 June 2015, 16:40
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mowaten, do you think Israel the zionist state wants to assassinate general Rifi?
23 June 2015, 16:13
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it seems mowaten's siblings in roumieh are rioting demanding more leniency for drug trafficking.
