[ 25/11/2010 - 10:32 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)-- Al-Ahrar center for prisoners' studies and human rights said that Israeli intelligence officers summoned last Monday leading prisoner Abdelnaser Issa in Hadarim jail in order to dissuade him and his fellow prisoners from staging their hunger strike.
Director of the center Fouad Al-Khafsh stated that Issa during the meeting highlighted the just demands of Palestinian prisoners, including ending the solitary confinement of detainees, restrictions on family visits, allowing Gaza families to see their sons and the repressive acts taking place in Ramon prison.
Khafsh appealed to human rights organizations to necessarily take action against the Israeli prison authority which violates the basic rights of prisoners.
In a separate incident, the higher follow-committee for prisoners' affairs appealed all competent legal foundations to file a lawsuit against an Israeli female jailer for beating and maltreating a Palestinian woman called Somoud Karajeh in Ramle prison as she was transferring her to Ofer court.
The committee on Wednesday stated that this jailer, known as Maya, physically assaulted female detainee Karajeh after the latter rejected to be strip searched in Ramle prison before taking her to Ofer court for trial.
It added that this jailer continued her assault on Karajeh during her transfer to the court and after she was taken back to the prison, affirming that the jailer threw some kind of fluid on the prisoner and told her it was a "new perfume from Israeli female soldiers' sputum".
Prisoner Karajeh, a Palestinian woman from Safa village in Ramallah city, was detained in November 11, 2009 and since then she has been taken from one prison to another. She was locked up in a solitary cell for three months and went on hunger strike to demand her transfer to Damon prison where her fellow Palestinian women are imprisoned.
In another context, an official Palestinian report revealed that 200, 000 Palestinians have been sentenced in Israeli military courts since 1990, noting that all these courts are located inside military posts and implement arbitrary judicial proceedings away from international law and oversight.
The report affirmed that these military courts have been operating since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of Palestine under cover of darkness, where journalists are banned from attending the hearings or reporting what happens there.
The report emphasized that the courts also refuse to abide by international law which demand the occupying forces not to hold such trials and make it impossible for defense lawyers to refute any charges against the Palestinian detainees.
With regard to confessions, the report pointed out that many of them are extracted under threat, which comfortably enables the military courts to sentence prisoners and send them to jail.
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