Mandela: IOA holds Palestinian woman in cell with homicide convicts

[ 03/03/2011 - 11:05 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Mandela institution catering for prisoners and human rights said that the IOA imprisoned Palestinian woman Samha Hijaz in one cell with Jewish homicide convicts before being transferred to Talmund jail. Lawyer Buthaina Dakmak of the institution said that Samha was arrested on 8/2/2011 after female conscripts found a mobile phone in her possession while on her way to visit her brother Yasser in Askalan jail. Two of Samha's brothers are held in Israeli detention the first Yasser is serving a life sentence while the other Hisham is serving ten life sentences.