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Abu Naim: Upsurge in Palestinian prisoners’ protests in April

images_News_2013_03_25_abunaim_300_0Protests within Israeli jails and outside them would witness an upward surge in the coming month, Tawfik Abu Naim, the head of the league of prisoners and ex-prisoners, said.

He told the PIC reporter on Monday that his league along with Waed society and other institutions concerned with prisoners were preparing for various activities in support of prisoners.

Abu Naim said that civil disobedience would be observed inside those jails in addition to strikes to protest the continued policy of solitary confinement, administrative detention, medical neglect, and visit deprivation.

He said that the new activities were organized at the backdrop of Israel’s disavowal of its pledge at the Wafa Al-Ahrar deal, and asked Cairo to intervene in its capacity as the patron of that deal to demand implementation of its articles.

“We will not accept promises of ending isolation of Dirar Abu Sisi and Awad Al-Saidi and allowing visits for Gaza children,” Abu Naim said.

He opined that liberation of prisoners would be only possibly through trekking the same road of the Wafa Al-Ahrar.

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