RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Israeli prisons authority (IPA) has installed cameras in isolation cells for Palestinian prisoners that monitor them round the clock, the prisoners' center for studies revealed on Friday.
The center quoted one of those prisoners as saying that Palestinians held in those cells are deprived of all basic and human rights, affirming that the IPA had recently installed those cameras.
It quoted in a press release Ahmed Al-Sakani, who is sentenced to 27 years imprisonment term and has been in detention since 2002, as saying that he was recently transferred to solitary confinement on suspicion that a mobile phone was sent to him by another prisoner.
Sakani said that he was surprised by observing a camera in his isolation cell that monitors him round the clock, adding that it was not previously found inside those cells.
Ra'fat Hamdona, the director of the center, described the isolation cells as "dark graves" where prisoners' lives are in constant danger whether on the part of jailors or Jewish homicide convicts, who assault them under the protection of police, other than the isolation itself and the conditions in those cells where humidity is high with no proper ventilation, and the presence of many insects.
He asked those concerned and human rights groups to demand an end to the solitary confinement policy pursued by the IPA.
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