Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike protesting arbitrary punishments
Jun 1, 2006
Ramallah - Palestinian prisoners in Hawara jail, south of Nablus city, began on Wednesday an open ended hunger strike protesting the Israeli prisons authority's oppressive treatment of prisoners.
The Palestinian prisoner support society said that the strike followed the IPA's ban on a number of prisoners from getting outside their cells for the daily stroll at the pretext they brought food into their cells, which is prohibited.
It called on all human rights institutions to visit the prisoners in Israeli jails to intervene to end all forms of torture.
In the same context, an Israeli judge told Sheikh Saleh Al-Aruri, who has been under detention for 14 years, that he "should thank Israel for keeping him in jail or else his place would have been in the graveyard".
The judge turned down an appeal by the support society to release Aruri, 40, claiming that secret evidence against him necessitated his incarceration and he should serve till end of his current detention on 24/7/2006.
The judge said that evidence, which was never revealed, indicated that Aruri was one of the planners of Hamas military wing's armed operations.
Aruri was arrested in October 1992 and was sentenced to five years behind bars then served a year under security detention before serving another five years then was held under administrative detention, without trial or charge since then.
Ramallah - Palestinian prisoners in Hawara jail, south of Nablus city, began on Wednesday an open ended hunger strike protesting the Israeli prisons authority's oppressive treatment of prisoners.
The Palestinian prisoner support society said that the strike followed the IPA's ban on a number of prisoners from getting outside their cells for the daily stroll at the pretext they brought food into their cells, which is prohibited.
It called on all human rights institutions to visit the prisoners in Israeli jails to intervene to end all forms of torture.
In the same context, an Israeli judge told Sheikh Saleh Al-Aruri, who has been under detention for 14 years, that he "should thank Israel for keeping him in jail or else his place would have been in the graveyard".
The judge turned down an appeal by the support society to release Aruri, 40, claiming that secret evidence against him necessitated his incarceration and he should serve till end of his current detention on 24/7/2006.
The judge said that evidence, which was never revealed, indicated that Aruri was one of the planners of Hamas military wing's armed operations.
Aruri was arrested in October 1992 and was sentenced to five years behind bars then served a year under security detention before serving another five years then was held under administrative detention, without trial or charge since then.
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 12:04 AM
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