Death of a convicted inmate at Roomieh prison in Lebanon sparks protest

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Roumieh prison
Roumieh prison
Inmates at the notorious Roumieh Prison Thursday launched a protest and accused security forces of negligence after a jailed militant died at the facility the night before.

According to security sources Fadi Akkoush, who was detained in connection with the 2014 Bhanine battles in the northern district of Minyeh, suffered from heart disease.

Akkouch was allegedly a supporter of extremist preacher Sheikh Khaled Hoblos, who was arrested in April during a police operation in Tripoli. Investigation into Hoblos uncovered dormant cells in north Lebanon.

Security forces deployed heavily in the facility’s Bloc B to prevent riots, the source added. However, LBCI reported that prisoners at Roumieh prison kicked off a strike to protest the death of the inmate.

Bloc B is well-known for holding suspected and convicted Islamist militants. They operate with relative impunity from inside the prison.

The Internal Security Forces released a statement later Thursday clarifying what happened based on CCTV footage, denying reports that authorities were late to provide Akkoush with medical attention.

The statement said Alloush had left his cell at 9:25 p.m. Wednesday and headed to the prison’s medical center, where he received the necessary treatment.

It continued that at 9:59 p.m., the doctor requested that Akkoush be transferred to hospital. CCTV footage showed ambulances outside the prison’s perimeters at 10:19 p.m. However, upon reaching the hospital, paramedics found that Akkoush had already passed away.

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5 responses to “Death of a convicted inmate at Roomieh prison in Lebanon sparks protest”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    “They operate with relative impunity from inside the prison.” … And ‘life’ happens. Allah doesn’t listen to strikers.

    1. Golyat Avatar

      “Allah/God”? You know that God translates to Arabic/Levant to Allah, don’t you? Allah it’s not a name neither is God.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Gave you the choice of dragging out a name for ‘a controller’ of a natural default in a body.

        1. Golyat Avatar

          Maybe I dunno but is the word “god” a name? For example Arabic speaking Christians don’t say “Jesus,” they say “Yasooa” and they use “Allah” word even in the Arabic Bible.

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            In Mexico, Jesus is pronounced ‘Hey Zeus’ and there are as many of them as Mohammads (with variations) in (e.g.) Pakistan … So what you ARE asking is ‘What’s in a Name?’.
            The question has been asked before. (as many have…)
            SO, it’s just a word, and perhaps it means nothing anyway, and ‘we’ just use it as a reference to what humans generally referred to as a ‘Creator’ – first of their little wonderful garden, and then a planet, and now as a universe … which Entity coincidentally also caused all their woes at various times and places of experiencing ‘Life’.
            An Expansive Spirit in the minds of humans developed over centuries as ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’, and stuff like that. A little of ‘Spirit’ in everything we see as ‘living’.
            What can I say beyond that?
            (Maybe that whatever IT is got broken into too many little bits to get back together … looking at this Humpty Dumpty World, that would be logical. Use Condoms.)

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