[Pnews] Monthly Update | Palestinian Political Prisoners and Detainees | March 2014

[Prisoner News]

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*Latest News*

    * The Israeli Magistrate Court has sentenced on Tuesday Sheikh Ra’ed
      Salah, the leader of the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied
      Palestine, to 16 months including 8 months actual imprisonment and
      an 8 months suspended sentence: *Click Here to Find More:*
      https://www.facebook.com/ufreenetwork/photos/a.182174708491769.38209.177627865613120/672819936093908/?type=1&theater
      <https://www.facebook.com/ufreenetwork/photos/a.182174708491769.38209.177627865613120/672819936093908/?type=1&theater>
    * Health condition of a group of Palestinian detainees has seriously
      deteriorated in Israeli Shatta prison, human rights sources
      revealed. *Click Here to Find More:*
      http://ufreeonline.net/index.php/site/index/news/411/3
    * Israeli Occupation Forces arrested Samer al-Issawi's family two
      members, Shadi al-Issawi a former political prisoner and Samer's
      sister Shereen al-Issawi who is an activist and lawyer. Israeli
      forces have also raided and violently searched al-Issawi family's
      home in Isawiya village and summoned the former detainee Medhat
      al-Issawi for investigation. *Click Here to Find More:*
      http://www.ufreeonline.net/index.php/site/index/news/414/
      <http://www.ufreeonline.net/index.php/site/index/news/414/1>
    * Sick detainee Dirar Abu Sisi, isolated in Eichel prison, had been
      transferred to Soroka hospital after a serious deterioration in
      his health condition especially that he suffers difficult health
      problems.
    * Dirar Abu Sisi, the sole power plant manager in the Gaza strip,
      was kidnapped in Ukraine in February 18, 2011, and then forcibly
      deported by Israeli Intelligence security services in flagrant
      violation to the international human rights norms and conventions.
      *Click Here to Read More:*
      http://ufreeonline.net/index.php/site/index/news/416/3
    * Three-month old infant died on Thursday after being denied from
      traveling for treatment in Egyptian hospital due to the continued
      closure of Gaza crossings. Two Gazan women have earlier died after
      being banned from traveling to receive treatment in West Bank and
      Egypt due to the continued siege imposed on the strip for 8 years.
      *Click Here to Read More:*
      http://www.ufreeonline.net/index.php/site/index/news/422/1
    * Three Palestinian detainees have suspended their hunger strike
      after Israeli prison administration agreed to release them. *Click
      Here to Read More:*
      http://ufreeonline.net/index.php/site/index/news/425/3
    * B'Tselem organization held Israeli officers responsible for
      killing 14-year-old Palestinian boy Yusef Shawamreh, as they
      ambushed him near a hole in the separation wall without posing any
      threat to the soldiers. *Click Here to Read More:*
      http://ufreeonline.net/index.php/site/index/news/429/3
    * The Israeli occupation authorities prevented an official
      delegation from the European Parliament from entering the Gaza
      Strip, where it was supposed to meet with officials from the UN
      Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). *Click Here to Read More:*
      https://www.facebook.com/ufreenetwork/photos/a.182174708491769.38209.177627865613120/684148894961012/?type=1&theater
      <https://www.facebook.com/ufreenetwork/photos/a.182174708491769.38209.177627865613120/684148894961012/?type=1&theater>

*Statistics and figures:*

    * 21 Palestinian women are currently held in Hasharon jail,
      including five mothers, under harsh detention conditions, where
      they are exposed to a deliberate policy of medical neglect and
      deprived of family visits.
    * 6 Palestinian sick detainees are permanently held in Israeli jails
      in Ramle prison hospital suffering from difficult health problems.
    * 31 Palestinian children were detained during the second half of
      February 2014.
    * 87 Palestinian minors, under 18 years of age, are currently
      detained in Israeli prisons and detention centres.
    * 54 administrative detention orders were issued against Palestinian
      detainees in Israeli jails during February.
    * 200 administrative detainees are currently detained in Israeli jails.
    * 3 Palestinian detainees are on hunger strike in Israeli jails:
    * Wahid Abu Maria: 78 days on hunger strike
    * Amir Shamas: 76 days on hunger strike
    * Ayman Tabich: 30 days on hunger strike

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