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Ahrar: Rafat Naseef, 88 Months Under; the Administrative Detention

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The dean of the administrative prisoners Rafat Naseef was taken again back to prison after he was released for 90 days after he had spent 42 consecutive months in the administrative detention.

Naseef, 46 years old from Tulkarem was rearrested on 12/2/2012 during the last campaign of arrests which targeted leaders from Hamas all over the West Bank after the meetings with Fateh movement to discuss reconciliation. Naseef is one of the most vulnerable Palestinian leaders to arrest and prosecution. Once he gets out of prison he is rearrested in an Israeli policy known as the “revolving door” or “reset the counter”.

Naseef’s wife Tahani told Ahrar Center for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights that Occupation forces arrested her husband in a brutal way. They inspected the house and confiscated Naseef’s cell Phone and PC. The Zionist Israeli Force was armed heavily as if they were going to wage a war, told him that they have orders to arrest him, they confined him and put him in the military jeep.

Tahani added that her husband was previously arrested in 2009, a month after their marriage; the Israelis locked him for 42 months in the administrative detention.

Tahani, who is pregnant in her first months, is worried about the possibility that she gave birth in the absence of her husband, assuring that the occupation tends to deliberately arrest released prisoners in order to create a state of instability for their families, and deprave them from each other in all the available ways.

Fuad Khuffash, Ahrar’s director, said that the Israeli policy that is known as the “revolving door” has been expanded so much in the last period to include a large number of Palestinian leaders and released prisoners. Khuffash added that Naseef had spent more than 88 months under the administrative detention.

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