Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Writing by Yusra Ahmed
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Prisoners of Homs’s central prison, who live in extremely hard circumstances, have threatened to begin a hunger strike in order to achieve their demands, according to statement circulated by activists on Tuesday.
The prisoners have expressed their disappointment from the unfulfilled promises to sort out their situation like what happened in old Homs. They received promises from the prison’s manager, Abdo Karam, and Nawaf al-Mulhem, the parliament’s and the National reconciliation committee’s member, beside Talal Barazi, Homs’s Governor.
Prisoners said that they felt the reconciliation only included prisoners of 2014, while those who were detained in 2011, and 2012 and live in difficult situation, were ignored.
They added that refusing to release many prisoners and referring them to the terrorism crimes court provoked them to apply a request to the prison’s administration and members of the National Reconciliation in Homs to resume the process of reconciliation and settlement of their situation in prison. The threatened of hunger strike as first step, if their requests were not fulfilled and released from prison.
Last year, prisoners of Homs’s central prison went into disobedience and forwarded an appeal through Zaman al-Wasl to every honest person to do everything possible to help them.
Moreover, they forwarded a message to the Free Syrian Army describing their dangerous circumstances, under hunger, torture, poisonous gases and death.
Activists reported that members of Shabiha militia had surrounded the prison for three days, and cut electricity and water supply and food to force prisoners to break their disobedience.
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