Israeli interrogators question Jihad prisoners

[ 23/04/2011 - 08:22 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli interrogators summoned and questioned a number of Islamic Jihad prisoners in occupation jails over connection to the issue of the lawyers charged with passing information from Jihad prisoners to their leadership and vice versa. The Palestinian center for prisoners' studies, in a statement on Friday, quoted Palestinian prisoners in Nafha as saying that four prisoners were summoned and interrogated over the issue, adding that they denied any relations with the lawyers. It said, however, that the prisoners were denied lawyers' visit after the questioning. The director of the center Ra'fat Hamdona described the Israeli step of denying lawyers' visits as very serious, calling for filing a lawsuit against Israel and its prisons service at international courts for denying basic rights of those prisoners. The Israeli police had detained four Palestinian lawyers from the 1948 occupied land on Wednesday over suspicion of passing information between Jihad leaders and those prisoners and between Jihad prisoners in various Israeli jails.

Lawyer Essawi freed along with her two brothers from Israeli jails

[ 22/04/2011 - 02:52 PM ]

Palestinian lawyer Shirin Essawi entering the Maskoubeyya interrogation center last year

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authorities has released Thursday Palestinian lawyer Sherien Essawi and her two brothers from jail after the Israeli prosecution failed to prove any charges against them. The IOA charged the three siblings with passing Hamas money to Palestinian prisoners from the Gaza Strip who were denied family visits for years now. The Israeli central court decided to release the three Palestinians after their lawyer filed a petition urging their immediate release after the prosecutor failed to prove the charges against them despite the passage of one year since they were arrested.