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Prison conditions at Roumieh prison

Reporter: admin
Date of incident: 
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Detailed description of violation: 

According to ISF statistics, as of December, a total of 13 prisoners died during the year--11 died due to medical reasons, one committed suicide, and one was killed in prison. The ISF also reported four cases of prisoner-on-prisoner rape and one case of guard-on-prisoner rape during the year. In August and September, a prisoner sexually molested a foreign citizen prisoner at Roumieh.