{"id":188705,"date":"2012-10-18T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/darfur-prisoners-in-lebanon-on-hunger-strike\/"},"modified":"2012-10-18T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:38:00","slug":"darfur-prisoners-in-lebanon-on-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/darfur-prisoners-in-lebanon-on-hunger-strike","title":{"rendered":"Darfur prisoners in Lebanon on hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least 11 Darfuri asylum seekers in Lebanese prisons are continuing a hunger strike for the ninth consecutive day, sources told Radio Dabanga on Thursday, 18 October.<\/p>\n

They said the prisoners, some of them detained for more than nine months, are protesting against the unfair reasons for their arrest.<\/p>\n

According to reports, the Sudanese were arrested by public security upon entering Lebanon, despite having documents proving their refugee and asylum status.<\/p>\n

Sources announced the prisoners are requesting humanitarian actors to release them and provide them with legal protection as refugees and asylum seekers.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Radio Dabanga from Lebanon, sources said the Lebanese security recently transferred the Sudanese to prisons outside the capital Beirut.<\/p>\n

They said many prisoners are denied any visits and that their health is deteriorating, what led to their hospitalization last Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Sheikh Ali Jumbo, who was detained for about one month, told Radio Dabanga that asylum seekers are placed in underground cells by the Lebanese public security.<\/p>\n

He added the detainees do not have access to lawyers and are subjected to torture, abuse and racism while kept in 4x4m solitary cages.<\/p>\n

Ali Jumbo demanded that human rights organizations intervene and release the Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers from Lebanese prisons.<\/p>\n

<\/a>He also demanded that the Sudanese are given legal protection as Lebanon does not recognize the Geneva Convention for Refugees.<\/p>\n

See also<\/em>: A Sudanese detainee claims to be abused in Libya prison<\/a> (20 August 2012)
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