Occupation deprives prisoners in from visits for a whole month!

A Palestinian human rights organization said that the Raymond prison administration informed the prisoners of its intention to deprive them of visits for a whole month, as a punishment for the hunger strike they waged on Tuesday.

Qahir Abu Kamal, spokesman for Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies in the occupied West Bank, said in a press release on Wednesday that the prisoners in the detention centers of Nafha, Eshel and Raymond waged on Tuesday a one-day hunger strike, demanding the implementation of the agreement reached after the Karama strike in April 2012, and in solidarity with the isolated captives Dirar Abu Sisi and Awad Al-Saidi.

Abu Kamal pointed out that the prisoners told the prison administration that this strike is a warning and that they will escalate their protests if their demands are not met.

He noted that the Israeli prison administration has taken more arbitrary procedures against the captives, and informed them they will be deprived of visits for a month, and threatened to take more measures in case the prisoners step up their protest.

Palestinian Prisoners Center appealed to the humanitarian institutions to intervene to save the prisoners and urged the UN Human Rights Council, which held a session yesterday to discuss issues of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, to expose the occupation crimes and prosecute Israel before the International Courts.

Meanwhile, Ahrar center for Prisoners studies and human rights demanded all the humanitarian and women’s rights institutions to save the 12 female prisoners who are held in Israeli jails.

Fuad Al-Khuffash, the center’s director, said that the female prisoners suffer from harsh conditions in Hasharon jail, where they are deprived of visits lots of the times and where they are exposed to medical neglect leading to health deterioration.

Al-Khuffash added that the prisoners also suffer from mistreatment of soldiers inside the prison.