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Palestinian Women
Political Prisoners Suffer Renewed Harassment
The report below was issued by The Women’s Affairs Technical Committee, Ramallah, Palestine.
Amneh Muna, a Palestinian prisoner, stated to the Palestinian Detainee Club in Bethlehem that prisoners’ condition has particularly deteriorated after the last suicide attack in Jerusalem. Israeli criminal prisoners harass them constantly, sending them death threats, throwing empty cans and cups towards them. Moreover, 40 Israeli police members burst into the prisoners’ rooms, cut the electricity, shot tear gas, tried to shut the windows and attacked the prisoners in a most barbaric manner. Amneh Muna suffers from burns after being forcefully sprayed with teargas into her eyes and mouth.
Prisoners’ hands were tied until a late hour that night. Women political prisoners were then held in solitary confinement and deprived of their electric machines and their families’ visits for two months. In response, the prisoners adopted certain measures in order to voice their demands, one of which was their rejection of going out to the walking yard for 20 days.
We at the Women’s Affairs Technical Committee demand international legal and human rights organizations to publicize Israel’s racist policies undertaken against Palestinian political prisoners, and also demand the immediate release of all Palestinian political prisoners. We call upon all Palestinian local institutions, national and Islamic forces to revive the prisoners’ issue, and never allow the general political crisis to overshadow their cause.
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