BEIRUT: A medical delegation Monday dispelled rumors that inmates recently transferred from Roumieh Prison's notorious Bloc B had been abused, concluding that the vast majority were in good health following an examination of the group.
The medical review was ordered by the Internal Security Forces after families of Islamists in Roumieh Prison, all of whom were kept in Bloc B until they were moved during a police raid last week, protested in Tripoli Friday over the alleged abuse of some prisoners during the move, contradicting an official position that no one was harmed during the operation.
President of the ISF’s health department Brig. Amer Zaylaa and Roumieh’s Medical Center head Col. Dr. Habib al-Taqsh, along with 12 certified doctors, inspected all Islamist inmates who were transferred to Bloc D last week, according to an ISF statement issued Monday.
The inspection revealed that the detainees were “in good health and very few were sick,” said the statement, adding that those ill were given the necessary medication, but that no one needed hospital treatment.
The Red Cross is also set to inspect the inmate’s detention center by next week.
Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk has maintained that no prisoners were wounded during last week’s raid, during which hundreds of inmates were transferred from Roumieh's notorious Bloc B, which was largely off-limits to authorities for years and years, to Bloc D, which is better monitored.
The move came after information revealed that some of the prisoners in Bloc B were connected to this month's twin suicide attacks that targeted a cafe in Tripoli's majority Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen, killing at least nine and wounding more than 30.
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