Megiddo prison administration continues to punish prisoners of section 5

Tadhamun Foundation for Human Rights said that the Israeli prison administration has continued to impose different sanctions on prisoners of Section 5 in the Megiddo prison since the death of captive Hassan al-Turabi.

Researcher at the foundation Ahmed Betawi said the Megiddo prison administration adopted a number of sanctions against the prisoners of section 5, following their protest steps which they launched in response to the death of captive Hassan al-Turabi, who died in Afula hospital on the 5th of November 2013 as a result of the medical negligence.

Betawi pointed out that the prisoners of Section 5 are still being punished by being deprived from different electrical devices and from families’ visits.

He pointed out that the prisoners held in Megiddo prison told Tadhamun foundation’s lawyer that these punitive measures came after prisoners of Section 5 refused to meet the director of the prison after the martyrdom of al-Turabi.

Prisoners in Megiddo have carried out a number of protest actions following the death of al-Turabi, while the prison administration responded by breaking into the section 5, depriving the prisoners from the canteen and transferring 6 of them to the punitive cells.