Hundreds on hunger strike in Lebanon prison as amnesty stalled

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BEIRUT: Hundreds of inmates in a Lebanese prison have been on hunger strike for 10 days over the stalled implementation of an amnesty law supposed to benefit them, a judicial official told AFP on Tuesday. Lebanon’s parliament last month passed the sweeping amnesty law, the first since 1991 after the country’s civil war. The legislation is meant to help thousands of prisoners and wanted people, many of them…