(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)
Ahmed Jomaa, the “Alive Martyr”, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon who has been kept in Roumieh prison for a year although he has two amputated legs and an upper arm without any trial or a lawyer to defend him.
Despite his disability, the Lebanese Authority is still keeping him, breaching in that the Lebanese Law itself as people with those kind of medical conditions are not imprisoned because they cannot look after themselves, and in worst scenario, they must be put in a hospital or a center for the disabled till judgment.
The “Alive Martyr” is a member of a poor family of 11 siblings beside the mother and the father, he joined Baba-Amr rebels to defend the neighborhood where he had many injuries. After the capture of Baba-Amr by the Syrian regime, Jomaa joined rebels of Western countryside of Homs to defend his town Azzara, Mohammed al-Kassab, the activist said.
“The ‘alive martyr’ was a symbol to other fighters as he was the hero of battles and all testify for that, no place in his body was left without a wound”, the activist stressed.
Al-Kassab confirmed that Jomaa had lost his mother, two sisters and two brothers in Azzara massacre on 8th march 2014.
When Hesn and Azzara fell down, Jomaa left to Lebanon with many injuries in his body, before he recovered, he joined Ersal where he was injured with a shell resulted in losing his two legs and an arm, and was kept in Baalbak hospital then was arrested and sent to Roumieh prison and still till now.
“He hoped to die as a martyr, but he could not achieve that, he is an outstanding hero”, al-Kassab described.
The activist expressed his pain for Jomaa’s condition and for the unfairness he is suffering from, and now he is left in prison in humiliating conditions, unable to walk to serve himself, breaching in that the international rules of prisons and the humanity itself.
Lawyer Mohammed Sablooh, representative of many Islamic prisoners said on his facebook page that there are three painful cases of prisoners in Roumieh prison with memory lost, disability and incontinence and need nappies with no one to inquire about them.
According to the Lebanese Institute for Democracy and Human rights (LIFE) , there are 5000 Syrian prisoners in Lebanon. Most of them were arrested under accusation of illegal entry to Lebanon or being members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) or other Jihadi organizations especially after Ersal’s troubles. The Lebanese Authority has hardened procedures for Syrians to enter or stay in Lebanon, which makes the Syrians subject to arresting without particular reasons.
Zaman Al Wasl
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