Israeli jailor takes photos of Palestinian captive during a strip search[ 10/06/2011 - 11:23 AM ]
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has strongly deprecated Thursday the Israeli occupation authority over the "strip search" policy it practices against the Palestinian captives in its jails.
Lawyer of the PPS revealed that an Israeli guard in Majeddo prison took some pictures of a Palestinian captive after he subjected him to a strip search prompting the captive to strongly protest this Israeli assault against him.
According to a statement issued by the PPS, the administration of the jail decided to transfer four Palestinian captives from Majeddo prison to Shatta prison abruptly prompting altercation between the captives and the jail guards.
One of the four, the statement added, was taken by the guards and was forced to strip down before taking pictures of him naked. The Israeli practice was meant to humiliate Palestinian captives and is a blatant violation of international laws and ethics on prisoners.
The captive went on hunger-strike for three days to protest the Israeli action against him. He was placed in solitary confinement before the guards forcibly transferred him and his three comrades to Shatta, the PPS pointed out.
In the Israeli Ramon prison, Palestinian captives decided to go on hunger strike Friday and Saturday protesting the Israeli strip search policy, saying that the IPA was provoking them and deliberately humiliating them by such policy, and vowed to resist such practices against them at all costs.
Palestinian records revealed that nearly 8000 Palestinian are still incarcerated in Israeli jails, many of them for decades now, in very miserable conditions.
Palestinian women stripped naked during provocative prison search[ 09/06/2011 - 11:17 AM ]
WEST BANK, (PIC)-- Four Palestinian women detained at the Israeli HaSharon prison were stripped naked during a humiliating and provocative cell search, those women told the Ahrar prisoner studies center.The names of the women held for alleged security reasons were left undisclosed.
Each woman was strip searched separately inside the unit in a way they described as humiliating and ”conflicting with ethics and morals”.
After their bodies were searched, they were moved to a ”penalization room” outside of the section wearing only clothes used for prayer, and the search team began savagely searching the entire room where they stay.
The search continued for six hours. When they got back to the room it was turned upside down and their personal items were damaged. But the alleged mobile phone was nowhere to be found.
During the search, the women were not allowed to eat or pray or even go to the bathroom, Ahrar center director Fuad al-Khuffash said. They were also threatened by the intelligence official saying he would ”turn the room on their heads”.
The room is said to be a weekly target for searches.
Palestinian prisoners in Ramon jail refuse strip search
[ 08/06/2011 - 03:12 PM ]
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Ramon jail have appealed to human rights groups and international organizations to immediately intervene and demand an end to strip searches forced on them.
The prisoners said in a statement made available on Wednesday that the prison director insists that they should take off all their clothes even the underwear on leaving or returning to jail, claiming that was the rule in the prison service in Israel.
Fuad Al-Khafsh, the director of the Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies, said that the situation in the aforementioned jail was heading toward further deterioration.
He said that two of the prisoners who refused to strip for search were fined and held in solitary confinement as a punishment.
Khafsh charged that the prison director was trying to humiliate the prisoners especially when prisoners are ordered to strip in front of each other.
He said that the director insisted on the measure in a meeting with representatives of those prisoners, who in turn said would pursue all struggle means to resist the procedure.
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