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Roumieh Inmates Call for Liberation of Prisoners Day on May 25

Roumieh prisoners on Wednesday appealed through Voice of Lebanon radio station for announcing May 25 a day for the liberation of prisoners in Lebanon.

Lebanon celebrates Liberation Day to mark the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon on May 25, 2000 after 22 years of occupation.

The demand came as scores of inmates at Roumieh prison were hospitalized on Wednesday night after a several-day hunger strike launched to demand general amnesty and improvement of conditions.

However, the prisoners were returned to the jail after a short hospitalization.

An Internal Security Forces communiqué has said that eight doctors and two dentists have started work at the prison, in a move aimed at improving the conditions of inmates.


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