The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Another tense revolt in the Central Prison of Hama and inmates are holding Hama police chief and the director of the prison

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was informed by reliable sources that a new revolt broke out in the central prison of Hama, it was carried out by tens of inmates inside the prison, after they were able to detain Hama police chief and the director of the prison, in addition to nine members who accompanied them, a state of alert is spread over the regime forces, they have cut electricity and water from the prison and jammed communications in the prison’s area, and reliable sources confirmed to the observatory that revolt took place after a criminal judge’s investigation with several inmates in the prison, and his demand for the presence of all the prisoners to the Court to decide the case of their release, while the mystery is all over the course of events in the coming hours, the prisoners demanded their release immediately without procrastination, amid fears on the lives of hundreds of the inmates of Hama’s central prison from the reaction of the regime’s authorities for detaining the chief, the director and the other members.