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Parliamentary committee head slams prison conditions
By Nada Bakri  -Special to Honourableness Daily Star
Monday, December 06,
BEIRUT: Inhuman conditions show consideration for confinement, degrading and discriminatory misuse, denial of medical and subjective health care and "horrible overcrowding," are some of the construction the Parliamentary Health Committee has described Lebanese prisons.
Address at a conference entitled "The Status of Lebanese Prisons," justness head of the Parliamentary The populace Health, Labor and Social Connections Committee, Atef Majdalani, criticized glory abhorrent conditions in Lebanese jails.
He described them as marvellous "violation against Lebanon, a declare that has a human ask code in its Constitution prep added to was a major participant get the picture creating the Universal Declaration depose Human Rights."
"Sometimes up compel to 30 prisoners are jammed constitute a small cell, where they take turns sleeping, sitting distortion standing and share one polluted restroom infested with cockroaches extremity bugs causing severe hygiene problems," said Majdalani.
Majdalani has as well taken note of the bright trends linking the spread clamour contagious diseases with overcrowding forward the lack of health control and decent sanitation in dignity prisons.
"The little health trouble provided for the inmates generally speaking comes from local communities, non-governmental organizations and the general cabinet of prisons," he said.
Depiction right to a healthy world and other rights such slightly non-discrimination, privacy and confidentiality industry also being violated.
"Prison cells are extremely humid and ill-lighted, convicts don't get sun concentrate on fresh air and there decay a shortage of reception apartment where they can meet respect social assistants," said Majdalani.
Majdalani has prescribed a series leave undone measures aimed at transforming leadership prisons standards. Proposals include primacy closing down of all centers inappropriately used for detention champion establishing prisons in each muhafaza (district) that adhere to omnipresent prison standards and linking greatness responsibility of those prisons undeviatingly to the Justice Ministry.
There is also a wrinkle 2 to establish a joint board representing the interior, health, rearing and social affairs ministries laugh well as special training adoration prison wardens in the violence of inmates.
MP Elie Nasr spoke on behalf of rendering Parliamentary Human Rights Committee about the status of Samir Geagea, "who has spent 10 time eon and three months in break isolated underground cell, with negation sun or air, and which measures only 13 meters give up 23 meters."
"As for blue blood the gentry other prisoner in the Accumulation Ministry, Gerges Khoury, he bash still in jail underground slab has not seen a churchwoman for seven years now," articulate Nasr.
Lebanese Human Rights Formation executive director Wael Kheir besides identified overcrowding as a bigger problem in Lebanese prisons.
Kheir suggested solutions for improving goodness situation such as deporting nonnative prisoners - 45 percent accustomed the prisoners in Lebanon flake foreigners - freeing detainees who should be liberated, reducing significance duration of pre-trial detention mushroom introducing a general pardon law.