A mutiny at Lebanon's largest prison ended peacefully on Friday after prisoners took seven prison guards hostage, a Lebanese police statement said. "The prisoners handed over the seven warders they were holding hostage and returned to their cells after having negotiated and handed over demands to the chief of internal security, Antoine Shakuri," the statement said. The prisoners, were calling for an improvement in their prison conditions and a
Four senior security officials arrested on suspicion of involvement in the 2005 assassination of former premier Rafik Hariri are presently interned in Roumieh. Jihad Hamad, one of the prime suspects in Germany's 2006 train-bombing plot, is also imprisoned there.