ALGIERS, (PIC)-- Former prisoner and expert on prisoners' affairs Abdulnasser Farwana has said that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) was performing more than 5,000 experimental drug tests on Palestinian prisoners per annum.
Farwana said in a research paper presented at the Algerian conference for support of Palestinian prisoners that the Israeli health ministry was granting permits to medicine companies to perform those tests on 15% of prisoners.
He said that the tests explain the increasing number of prisoners who suffer from various illnesses and the emergence of strange and malignant diseases among the prisoners, which endanger their health.
Most of the Palestinian prisoners face health problems while 1500 of them need urgent medical treatment including tens suffering from serious and chronic diseases, the researcher underscored.
Farwana recalled that the Nazis were the first to experiment drugs on prisoners, pointing to a big similarity between them and the IOA.
He noted that around 3,000 Palestinian prisoners (45% of the total prisoners) in the IOA jails of Nafha, Raymond, and Negev are subjected to biological tests en masse, referring to the presence of the Dimona nuclear reactor and the impact of its poisonous refuse.
The former prisoner stressed the importance of activating the World Health Organization's decision last May that condemned the IOA for ignoring the Palestinian prisoners' medical conditions.
He finally advocated catering for the liberated prisoners and checking them on periodical basis especially when many of them suffer diseases after their release most probably because of the drug tests or the effect of incarceration.
Families of hunger strikers in PA jails met with Dr. Barghouthi
[ 06/12/2010 - 02:47 PM ]
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- The families of the six Palestinian hungers strikers imprisoned by the Palestinian authority (PA) met with secretary-general of the Palestinian national initiative Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi and handed him a special file related to the detention of their sons and the judicial decisions that ordered their release.
The families also briefed Dr. Barghouthi about the violations committed by PA interrogators and jailers against their sons.
For his part, the Palestinian official denounced that political arrests taking place in the West Bank and the refusal to respect the release decisions issued by the high court of justice, and promised the families to make every effort to secure the immediate release of their sons.
The families on Sunday held a sit-in outside the Red Cross headquarters in Al-Khalil city and handed a letter in this regard to the officials there.
In a separate incident, the PA security militias kidnapped eight Palestinian citizens affiliated with Hamas Movement in the cities of Jenin, Nablus, Qalqiliya and Al-Khalil, according to local sources on Monday.
Two political prisoners, Majd Obeid and Khader Abu Assaud were reportedly transferred from Juneid prison to Rafidia hospital in Nablus city.
For its part, the Islamic Jihad Movement said that the PA intelligence kidnapped at night Saturday one of its members in Jenin city and an ex-detainee released from Israeli jails called Mansour Melhem after a violent raid on his home.
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