Should we applaud for Youssef Chaaban because he caused the last "rebellion", as was described, in Roumieh prison? The rebellion which led to the detention of the guards by their prisoners and to the state of chaos of which the security forces failed to seize for several hours, because he was, finally, able after 15 years of arbitrary detention of raising the interest of the security leaders involved in prisons in Lebanon, those who promised "to report on the status of Yousef to the government in order to study ways of solving it and caring about the deteriorated health situation" which increased lately due to his detention and its circumstances.
A stance that calls into question about the echo of the struggle of the local and international human rights organizations towards the Lebanese judiciary to resolve his legal status of which the Lebanese judiciary is aware that it is illogical after the trial of the killers of the Jordanian diplomat in which Youssef was accused of killing him, and before that, the non stop movement and the calls of his family to his justice. Was they supposed, and on top of them is Youssef, to make a "rebellion" or causes and lead the protest inside the prison to get the attention of the involved in justice to his suffering?. Knowing that he got his punishment by being transferred to Halba prison in Akar , the prison to which other prisoners are transferred to the north for discipline which lead the prisoner Ali Taleb to attempt suicide (28 April) in Amyoun prison to which he was transferred after rebellion.
Khiam Center uprears the solidarity of the various bodies of local and international human rights to demand justice for Youssef Chaaban, and hopes that the motives are not political or current, but purely humanitarian in order to have a totally humanitarian solution.
The center calls upon the Lebanese judiciary to be passionate with the prisoners, who were described with the rebels instead of the rights’ holders in human conditions in the prison and to not prosecute and bring them to justice courts as they were being threatened, but to eliminate all the reasons pushing them to violence against the tragic circumstances that they are living in the Lebanese prisons that have been previously described by the Commission on Human Rights Deputies that “they don’t work as farmyards”, meaning that they are unfit for the animals.
Youssef Chaaban's case is the case of justice and human rights and his continued detention is a thunderous scandal in the face of democracy and human rights and odium on the conscience of the current Lebanese government and the previous governments.
And now, would the Lebanese judiciary reconsider his trial and release him?
02/05/2008
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