Key site¶

Ministry of Justice - Lebanon (in Arabic)

World Prison Brief

Amnesty International – Lebanon

Human Rights Watch – Lebanon

L’Orient-le-Jour (in French)

Legal texts¶

Lebanese Penal Code (in French)

Lebanese Code of Criminal Procedure (in French)

Reports¶

Act for Human Rights, “Annual report 2018, The situation of Human Rights in Lebanon“, April 2019. 

Amnesty, “Lebanon: ‘I Wished I Would Die’- Syrian refugees arbitrarily detained on terrorism-related charges and tortured in Lebanon”, 23 March 2021.

Caritas Lebanon, European Research Institute, “Access to legal aid services in Lebanese prisons“, 4 March 2017. 

Catharsis, “Mental Health in Lebanese prisons, Prevalence study of severe mental illness among inmates in Roumieh and Baabda prisons“, 2015.

Lebanese Centre for Human Rights, “Prisons du Liban : Préoccupations humanitaires et légales“, 2008 (in French). 

Lebanese Center for Human Rights, “Activity report“, 2019. 

Civil Society Reports, “Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Third Round Lebanon“, 2020.

Committee against Torture, “Rapport annuel de session, 51 et 52e sessions“, 2013-2014 (in French).

Committee against Torture, “Examen des rapports soumis par les États parties en application de l’article 19 de la Convention, Rapports initiaux des États parties attendus en 2001“, 14 avril 2016 (in French).

Committee on the Rights of the Child, “Observations finales concernant le rapport du Liban valant quatrième et cinquième rapports périodiques“, 2017 (in French).

Human Rights Committee, “Observations finales concernant le troisième rapport périodique du Liban“, 9 mai 2018 (in French).

Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, “Résumé analytique : Note du Secrétariat”, 2016, p. 5 (in French).

Department of State, “Lebanon Human Rights Report”, 2020, p. 8.

Together against death penalty, Berrih Carole et El Mufti Karim, “Vivants sans l’être : mission d’enquête, Liban“, 2020 (in French). 

Human Rights Watch, “Rot Here or Die There: Bleak Choices for Iraqi Refugees in Lebanon“, novembre 2007. 

MENA Rights group, “Lebanon, Follow-up report, Joint report submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee in the context of the follow-up to the Concluding Observations on the third periodic report of Lebanon“, 20 January 2022. 

Official documentss¶

Ministre de la Justice, “Réponse à l’étude du secrétaire général de l’organisation des Nations unies sur la violence contre les enfants”, 2004, § 6 p. 4.