[ 24/05/2011 - 02:29 PM ]
NABLUS, (PIC)-- The Israeli prison service has taken strict sanctions after Palestinian captives kicked off a wide-ranging hunger strike in six prisons, the Ahrar prisoner studies center reports.
The strike is aimed at curtailing the liberal isolation policy taken against Palestinian prisoners.
Since the strike, the Nafha prison has renewed its strip search policy, targeting those coming in and leaving the prison, said Ahrar center director Fuad al-Khuffash, adding that the prisoner movement has rejected the step, but the IPS has so far been insistent.
Prisoners in the Ashkelon prison have been denied the right to finish their education in Israeli universities for one year. Subsequently, a large group of prisoners will take longer to graduate.
Khuffash called on international institutions to support the prisoners' demands of ending the isolation policy and reinstating secondary educational exams and providing their rights guaranteed by international norms, laws, and conventions.
He also called on the Palestinian media and civil society institutions to support the prisoners' legal demands and not “to leave them by themselves in their battle with the Israeli prison service”.
West Bank political prisoners embark on hunger strike demanding release[ 24/05/2011 - 12:26 PM ]
NABLUS, (PIC)-- Eleven Palestinian political prisoners in the Juneid prison in Nablus have gone on hunger strike demanding their immediate release.
They have collectively sworn not to eat until they reach their homes, or until they have died as martyrs, their families told our correspondent.
The committee of political prisoners' families added that the men have been detained for more than nine months without legal justification under the “law of division”.
Hamas emphasized the release of all political prisoners when signing a national reconciliation deal with Fatah in Egypt more than two weeks ago ending a state of rift that lasted about 4 years.
Separately, the Ahrar prisoner studies center in Gaza has warned of an ”imminent explosion” in Palestinian prisons as the West Bank security agencies have procrastinated in releasing 140 political prisoners, as has been stipulated in the unity deal.
”A state of joy by the reconciliation signing has turned into a state of frustration and concern,” said Ahrar center director Fuad Khuffash.
”They and their families don't know where they will end up. They know that they are being detained for their political affiliation and because of the split, and that this detention should end because of the end of that which led to their detention.”
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