Lebanon: Prisoners threaten suicide over failure to pass amnesty law

 

Prisoners in Lebanon have threatened to kill themselves if the amnesty law is not passed.

According to the Iber news agency, inmates at Lebanon's central prison have pressured parliament to pass a general amnesty law and threatened to kill themselves if the law is not passed.

According to Arab media, in the videos received from the prison, the prisoners threatened to hang themselves if the amnesty law was not passed.

According to Arab media, the prisoners said that we are thieves but it is all due to hunger and poverty, big thieves are not caught in the country and only those who steal one egg are punished while former Prime Minister Rafiqi Hariri The killer has also been released.

According to Arab media, a prisoner wrapped his clothes around his neck and nose to commit suicide, while the prisoner said that if the amnesty law is not passed, our lives have nothing to do with us. We must die

According to media reports, the families of the detainees also staged a sit-in outside the building during a meeting on the amnesty law and demanded an amnesty law for their detainees. However, the matter has been referred to the committee due to disagreement among parliamentarians.