Palestinian political detainees in Al-Jalama Israeli occupation prison carried a one-day hunger strike

Friday October 05, 2007 13:40 by IMEMC Staff saed at imemc dot org

Palestinian political detainees imprisoned in Al-Jalama Israeli occupation prison carried on Thursday a one day hunger strike in protest to the bas living conditions and to the administration’s neglect of their rights. The detainees stated that they will carry further protests if their legitimate demands were not met.

In a letter that was sneaked from the facility, the detainees stated that the prison administration is barring them from their rights and is still confining 30 detainees in solitary cells since more than two months despite that they finished their interrogation period.

The detainees who are in solitary confinement are barred from any visitations even from visitations of the Red Cross and their lawyers.

The detainees are also not provided with decent and sufficient food, and are not even allowed to bathe and change their clothes regularly.

In their letter, the detainees also stated that there are several detainees who are in bad health conditions due to torture and medical negligence.

Furthermore, they detainees threatened to carry an open-ended hunger strike if their living conditions were not improved and appealed their families and human rights groups to intervene on all levels in order to expose the illegal practices carried against them.

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