Ex-prisoner: Administrative detainees experience tragic incarceration conditions

Ex-prisoner: Administrative detainees experience tragic incarceration conditions

[ 18/10/2009 - 04:20 PM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- Sa'ed Yassin, an activist and researcher in prisoners' affairs, has said that Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli occupation jails were suffering from tragic imprisonment conditions. Yassin, himself an ex-prisoner, told the lawyer of the international Tadamun society in a visit that most of the administrative detainees in Negev and Ofer prisons were being held in crammed tents that do not provide protection from winter cold or summer heat. They are served poor quality and quantity meals and are deprived of many rights guaranteed by international agreements and laws, he elaborated. Yassin charged the IOA with violating the international law with its policy of administrative detention. He said that the IOA resorts to administrative custody as part of collective punishment against the Palestinians, noting that the administrative detainee could be held for long years without trial or charge and without being informed of reasons for his/her detention.