Prisoners’ center for studies appeals for lifting Israeli ban on prisons’ visits

[ 24/05/2009 - 03:54 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The prisoners’ center for studies on Sunday appealed to the Red Cross to intervene to lift the Israeli ban imposed on the Palestinian families’ right to visit their sons and daughters imprisoned in Israeli jails. The center said that the prisoners’ families are extremely worried about the state of their sons in Israeli jails in light of this Israeli ban, noting that visiting prisoners is a right guaranteed by international laws and conventions especially the fourth Geneva convention. Director of the center Ra’fat Hamduna affirmed that the Israeli ban on families’ visits caused an a cute shortage of prisoners’ basic needs like clothes and blankets while the prison administration sell such things to prisoners inside jails at higher prices. Meanwhile, the Salem military court sentenced Palestinian prisoner Mohamed Libada from Nablus to 12 years in jail, while the Palestinian prisoner club reported that an Israeli court issued different imprisonment sentences against two other prisoners from Nablus, one was given a sentence of 10 years in prison. The prisoner club in Tulkarem said that the conditions of prisoners jailed in solitary confinement in the Jalame investigation center are very bad and constitute a threat to their lives, adding that they are tortured and maltreated for long periods and locked up inside places like graves as a form of psychological pressure used to extract confessions from them.