One hundred Syrian prisoners strike food due to the delay of their deportation

“The Middle East” wrote: More than 100 Syrian detainees in Rome Central Prison began an open hunger strike, in protest against “the failure to implement the agreement that took place between the two countries to hand them over to their country and complete their trials, or to complete the sentence period.”

One of the Syrian detainees said: “The number of hunger strikers exceeds 100 prisoners, we handed over their names to the prison administration to take the flag and stop providing them with meals, and informing that to the Lebanese authorities.”

The detainee confirmed to Asharq Al -Awsat that the prisoners “have one request is to implement the agreement that took place between the two countries when the former Prime Minister Najib Mikati visited Damascus, and then the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had started procedures for restoring all Syrian detainees in Lebanese prisons,” noting that “The hunger strike continues until the decision to deport them to their country.”

The Judicial Security Committee, formed by the former Lebanese Interior Minister, Judge Bassam Mawlawi, did not achieve any step towards the completion of the files of the prisoners and did not submit its report that, and a prominent judicial source justified this matter by “stopping the work of the Syrian Communication Office, which was in charge of coordination with Lebanon in this regard.” He pointed out to “Al -Sharq Al -Awsat” that “the public prosecutions have completed most of the files belonging to the people to be delivered to the Syrian authorities,” noting that Lebanon is “very interested in deporting them because therefore it reduces the economic, health, security, and logistical burdens on the state, and the largest part of The overcrowding crisis in prisons. ”

The hunger strike is an additional burden on the prison administration, and a Lebanese security source approved “the presence of about 95 Syrian detainees who announced the hunger strike.” He assured Al -Sharq Al -Awsat that the prison administration “organized a report of the incident of these and submitted it to the discriminatory public prosecutor, as well as put them under observation to follow their health conditions, and whether some of them were exposed to a healthy model as a result of this strike.” He said: “The prison administration provides them with food and water with its deadlines, but they refrain from eating it.” He pointed out that “all the strikers of the system are the guests of the building (B) for the Islamic detainees.”