News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Interior Minister Ziad Baroud told An-Nahar newspaper on Wednesday that the cabinet would hold a session to resolve the issue of Lebanese prisons and emphasized the pressing need to form a specialized administration for jails, which would be included...
News Source: United Press International
| 10 months ago
Prisoners rioted at a jail in Tripoli, Libya , Monday, setting a number of cells on fire, a security official said...Prisoners also were reported holding two corrections officers hostage. Baroudi sent an emissary to negotiate with the prisoners, but...
News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Inmates at al-Qubbah jail in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli ended their mutiny on Monday and freed two prison wardens after night-long negotiations. ISF Director General Ashraf Rifi on Monday told NOW Lebanon that talks the inmates who had...
News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
Two prison guards were taken hostage, after riots broke out in the al-Qubbah Prison in Tripoli Sunday. After negotiating with the rioters, the Internal Security Forces finally decided to make a hole in the wall separating them from the prisoners to...
News Source: NOW Lebanon
| 10 months ago
At the moment things are not over yet at al-Qibbeh prison in Tripoli. However, things are apparently heading a toward positive resolution. It is in the prisonersâ interest not to continue; we are not against them.
News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| 10 months ago
Inmates rioted at a prison in northern Lebanon on Sunday, taking two guards hostage and setting ablaze parts of the jail, security sources said. The prisoners' demands included an improvement in living conditions at al-Qubba prison in Tripoli,...