IOA refuses visits to detainees in Hawara

[ 13/03/2011 - 05:52 PM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has barred lawyers of the international Tadamun society for human rights from visiting Palestinian detainees in Hawara detention center near Nablus. Ahmed Al-Beitawi, a researcher with Tadamun, said that most of the detainees are from Orta village, who were rounded up following the Itamar murders on Saturday, and were taken to Hawara. He said that his society managed to obtain a list of those held in Hawara but was denied visiting them. Beitawi noted that all of them were detained after midnight and need clothes.