BEIRUT: Around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, more than 30 inmates broke out of a prison facility in Lebanon by sawing thier way through with a wall, according to security personnel.
At 31 detainees managed to escape from a detention centre in the Adlieh district of the capital Beirut, the Internal Security Forces said in a statement. Investigations are ongoing and immediate orders to arrest them were given.
According to a court officer involved in the inquiry into the incident, the inmates used a saw that was brought into the facility to break through a prison window. Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians are among the foreigners who have escaped,
The observed security guards and army soldiers on duty on Sunday morning in the Beirut area where the jail is located.
The country’s jail administration now oversees the Adlieh detention facility, which was previously under the control of Lebanon’s General Security agency.
According to rights organisations like Human Rights Watch, it was infamous for atrocities committed against jailed Syrian refugees & foreign migrant domestic workers. According to Bassam al-Kantar of the National Human Rights Commission of Lebanon, the facility is among the worst in the nation due to overpopulation, offensive sewage odours, a lack of ventilation, and lack of sunlight.
He claimed that the prisoners were undernourished and were forbidden from receiving food from their families.
He continued, “Healthcare is also non-existent, with a huge number of detainees suffering from skin ailments,” primarily as a result of the facility’s lax cleanliness policies.
