IPU: Detention of Palestinian MPs breach of immunity

[ 29/07/2009 - 09:48 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The secretary general of the international parliamentary union (IPU) Anderson Johnson has called on Israel to release all Palestinian MPs held in its jails for more than three years. He said that the detention of those MPs was in flagrant violation of their parliamentary immunity. Johnson, in a message to the international campaign to release the kidnapped Palestinian MPs, condemned the detention of those legitimate representatives of the people and called for their immediate and unconditional release. The secretary general pointed out that an IPU committee discussed the issue of those deputies during an IPU session in August 2006 and issued a statement in October the same year denouncing their unjustified detention. The IPU will continue to defend the rights of the detained lawmakers in Israeli jails until they are all released, he concluded.